I have run across a situation where I see some coaches with very high ratings are rehired every year by the same team for the same minimum salary. How does this happen?

A coach's salary is not necessarily commensurate with skill. All coaches who return, regardless of level or coaching skill, come back at the minimum salary for that level. Same if you move a coach from AAA to the majors (or any other promotion). If you win the bidding for a coach at $2 million for the major-league level, if he comes back the next season, it will be at the minimum salary for that level. It keeps money allocated for coaching salaries down. That is a good thing for you. If you hire a pitching coach at $2 million one year, a fielding instructor for $3 million the next season and a hitting coach for $2 million the following season, that is $7 million in coaching salary each season for those three guys

All coaching contracts are one-year deals. Think about it as every coach at each position gets the same salary, but those who sign are getting a signing bonus. For instance, the minimum salary for all major-league pitching coaches is $600,000 regardless of experience. If you sign a pitching coach for $2 million, think of it as a $1.4 million bonus on a $600,000 salary. That same pitching coach will get $600,000 in the next season if he stays.

not if he wants 2.2 million......he won't sign for the minimum again......at least I did not think so until I saw what I described above.

This is a "for instance"...almost all of his coaches have similar stats...

	ML	0-0	HC	$600,000	82	6	32	42	79	50	54	42
67		ML	108-54	HC	$600,000	82	6	32	42	79	50	54	42
66		ML	108-54	HC	$600,000	82	6	32	42	79	50	54	42
65		ML	103-59	HC	$600,000	82	6	32	42	79	50	54	42

If you do not hire a coach during the hiring period the AI will fill the position with a "bottom of the barrel" coach. Once or twice I have forgotten coach hiring and gotten coaches signed for me and they are always at the minimum. One time it re-signed all of my previous season coaches for the minimum. I've actually gotten some pretty high rated big league coaches by just letting the AI sign them.

My guess would be this - if you do not sign coaches and the AI has to do it they first check if your previous coach is available, if so they bring them back at the minimum salary. If your previous coaches are not available then they just grab the next guy on the list.

I appreciate what you are saying, but most of the coaches on the coaching staff are at the top of their ratings and I would suspect that they would be bid on.....but for some reason these coaches are returning to the same team (some with low loyalty ratings in the 30's) at minimum pay for 4-5 seasons????........doesn't make sense to me.

Only ones I have seen do that are fielding instructors, and 1st, 3B coaches. And obviously the minor league coaches. The big three ML pitching, Hitting and Bench coaches almost always demand more than the league minimum.

Apparently not for the owner I listed above....ALL his major coaches are the SAME coaches and have been at the MINIMUM for many seasons. I am trying to find out why and how does that happen. This gives that coach an extra 2-4 million to spend on salary or internationals.

His pitching coach (rated 82) is entering his 13th season and has never been paid above the minimum

Coach Profile - Harry Lorenzo
Coaching History

Sn	Franchise	Level	W-L	Role	Salary
Current		ML	0-0	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
67		ML	108-54	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
66		ML	108-54	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
65		ML	103-59	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
64		ML	94-68	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
63		ML	102-60	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
62		ML	94-68	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
61		ML	76-86	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
60		ML	69-93	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
59		ML	65-97	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
58		ML	60-102	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
57		ML	68-94	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
56		ML	72-90	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
55		ML	84-78	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
54		ML	63-99	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
53		ML	75-87	PC	$600,000	9	82	8	9	45	59	76	52
52		ML	87-75	PC	$1,990,000	9	81	8	9	45	58	76

no one seems to be able to explain this....site management brushed this off.