[injury log]

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Suggestion

Change waivers to be more like real life. In particular (from most important to least important):

1) outright waivers should be irrevocable in OOTP (they're revocable at present if the waived player has options remaining);

2) players who have been outrighted to the minors once previously in their career should have the option to become free agents every subsequent time they are outrighted (some players in OOTP should choose to become FAs, some should not, based on morale);

3) players with three years of MLB service should also have the choice to become a free agent if outrighted;

4) it should only be possible to try to waiver-trade a player once after the trade deadline in a given season; the waivers should be irrevocable the second time in the same season.

Reason

I find a number of unrealistic roster situations in OOTP; I have borderline major league players who are unhappy and who I continually demote or outright, and who in real life would jump at the chance to become free agents, but stay in my system for years in OOTP. It is also unrealistically easy to clear 40-man spots; the waivers used should always be irrevocable. This would be easier to understand for newer players- when you remove someone from the 40-man, he always goes through irrevocable waivers.

These suggestions would bring OOTP waiver rules more in line with real MLB rules, very well explained here (thanks to Zeyes for the link):

baseballanalysts.com/archives/2006/08/death_taxes_and_1.php

Irrevocable waivers are already implemented in-game, so I'd think some of the changes suggested would be easy to implement. A 2-valued 'outright flag' (0 if the player has never been outrighted, 1 if he has) would probably be needed in each player's record to implement suggestion 2).

Priority

High, for me, for 1), 2) and 3); 4) isn't as important.