Franchise Trade Logic

[lthurston0728]

hello. i am wondering if anyone else has seen some suspect player movement via trade/free agency in the franchise mode?

i am playing a single team control franchise as the seattle mariners. i have training set to manual. i've been lurking and following the franchise bug thread from the beginning so i am aware that the trade logic is supposedly more flawed with 30 team control than single team. i also understand that there are players showing up in FA that shouldn't. my inquiry is more about teams signing multiple top level FA and top notch all star talent getting traded.

i can't quote the exact transactions but some of these players simply shouldn't be getting traded, at least not at the rate that they are.

so far, the ones that stick out in my mind were a package deal including Cliff Lee and Placido Polanco for Tim Lincecum. Ubaldo Jiminez was traded to the rangers but I haven't looked at the rockies to see what he was moved for.

the red sox are a great example of just unrealistic team construction via trade/FA. in just season 2 on my franchise they have acquired enough quality pitchers that john lackey is now their long reliever out of the bullpen. their line-up includes all the originals crawford, pedroia, ellsbury, youkilis, adrian plus the newly acquired prince fielder(via FA.) and victor martinez(via trade back from detroit).

there are other examples i won't bore you with. a caveat to all this is that i did trade ichiro for jay bruce early in season 1, which is completely unrealistic and ridiculous. so maybe i touched off the firestorm. anyhow, i'd be interested to hear if anyone else has seen this type of movement and if or how it relates to the infamous franchise bug.

lt.

update: the reds have since traded ichiro, and the marlin have traded hanley. both to the cardinals. who now present ichiro, hanley, pujols, holliday as the 1-4 hitters.

[Meyeke]

Okay, first off, you shouldn't have traded Ichiro. That kind of managerial misconduct will invite plagues and locusts upon you and Safeco Field.
Face of the franchise, man. Face of the freakin' franchise. I'm very disappointed.

And as to your question, yeah, trade logic is horrendous.
It only takes a year or 2 before all the teams start looking unrecognizable and unfairly STACKED full of big names from all over the map.
If I wanted team's rosters to look like that I would have selected Fantasy Draft at the onset.
My first go round with the Mariners in MLB The Show '10 had me facing a 2011 LA Angels that featured half of the best hitters in the AL East.
Carl Crawford, A-Rod, to name a couple and a pitching staff that would make the Phillies drool. It was so good that Jered Weaver had been demoted to the #4 spot in their rotation.
They could have beaten the National League in the All Star Game.
And it just got worse from there.
By year 3 not one team resembled anything close to their original roster.
Good bye Home Run/Steroid era and Hello trade piece/Free Agent era.
No team loyalty. And no logic whatsoever. It was bad, lemme tell ya.

[JayD]

you will see some odd trades here and there but they usually happen so teams can free up salary space or trade away a high dollar veteran with an expiring contract. Even though there are a few suspect trades it is 100x better than last year!