Odd trade (by AI)

[orton1227]

playing in 1987:

NYY send Rickey Henderson (having an All-star year)

TO

BAL for Tony Arnold (a middle-aged #6 reliever)

[sovereignstar]

Curious, what are some of the other factors? Like disposition, placement in the standings, available money.

[orton1227]

NY is in 1st. Baltimore in last. NY is 1st in finances, but I don't think you'd trade your promising young allstar first. You'd probably trade an overpaid guy in his 30s.

Another weird trade was Kirk Gibson for reliever Lee Tunnell. Kirk's hitting .300 with 17 HRs at the beginning of June, and Tunnels ' got an ERA near 5.00. Tunnell's got pretty good ratings, but Gibson's an All-Star. The key on the team.

[orton1227]

New one:

George Brett for Tony Bernazard. Way one-sided. Again, an All-star for a middle-aged backup.

I know trade AI is really hard to perfect (I've never seen a perfect one in a game), but I think it's needs to be tweaked slightly.

[orton1227]

ORIGINAL: orton1227

NY is in 1st. Baltimore in last. NY is 1st in finances, but I don't think you'd trade your promising young allstar first. You'd probably trade an overpaid guy in his 30s.

Another weird trade was Kirk Gibson for reliever Lee Tunnell. Kirk's hitting .300 with 17 HRs at the beginning of June, and Tunnels ' got an ERA near 5.00. Tunnell's got pretty good ratings, but Gibson's an All-Star. The key on the team.

Funnily enough, after the season, Tunnell is a FA. When I started 1988, Tunnell was still a FA! He was never signed by anyone! So Detroit gave up Gibson for nothing!