How much does the AI evaluate his team...

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Originally Posted by Red Sox Fan

There are GMs in MLB that have pulled off wild trades. I thought Cabrerra and Willis was a steal in Detroits favour...however 3 months later Detroit is paying the price on Cabrerra ($163M for 8 years).

Just as a side note, I disagree that Detroit is paying the price for their deal. 20ish million a season is about what Cabrera would've gotten in the FA market, and Detroit/Florida knew that. I think this just makes the deal more favorable for Detroit. To me the question wasn't if Cabrera was going to get a huge contract, it was if he was going to sign with Detroit without testing the FA waters.

Anyways, real GMs make bad moves, but there's always at least logic to them. Florida needed to unload Cabrera or risk losing him for nothing. They shopped him around and made the best deal they could. I think the Santana deal was horrible for the Twins, but in the end Minnesota either had to do that or end up with nothing.

I'm not saying that AI should be inflexible, but I do think the way they look at trades needs to be altered. They should base it on what there team is and where they are going. I have no problem with the AI making less than perfect trades, but there still has to be a foundation in reason. There's no point in the Yankees taking on a long and expensive contract if it's someone that they have no intention of using.