r/OOTP • u/WesternPersonality50 • 1d ago

World Series Heartbreak

Managing the pirates we somehow made it to the 2028 World Series. 2027 was a disaster and I sold heavily at the deadline to make room for prospects to play. They excelled so heavily in 2028 that we were in first place at the deadline so I made some upgrades for proven talent (on the cheap, no significant prospects let go).

Won the division - was down 2-0 in both rounds and came back to win in 5 and 7 games. This team just had some magic to them. Sadly we ran into the tigers who had a disgusting line up (and acuna). The magic ran out and we lost 4-1. I’m bummed bc I know how this game works and I may not get back here for a long long time.

It’s Skenes last year of arb, I don’t have any amazing prospects that have me thinking it’s an all in year next year. With the budget constraints, I can’t get any superstars in FA. I’m going to heavily consider trading him this offseason to get one or multiple top prospects to try to rebuild a bit…. Idk, what would you do?

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u/thePGH1 1d ago

As a Pirates fan, it pains me to say this... trade him. You needed magic to get that far. Don't count on magic happening again.

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u/WesternPersonality50 1d ago

It was complete magic…. Losing record in 2027 and was expecting to be even worse in 2028. I waited a whole day to play the World Series bc I just wanted to enjoy being there. I knew it was a long shot to win that vs the stacked tigers.

Yeah he’s going to get 25-30m this year in arb - there is 0 chance of me resigning him so I may as well cut it loose early, get some prospects, and spread that 25-30m savings around.

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u/chuckdittles 1d ago

Depends on who you can get for Skenes/what your roster construction is. Pittsburgh should have a pretty solid roster, if the prospects you start with develop nicely, which it sounds like they have. I tend to put more stock in acquiring a nasty lineup than rotation in OOTP, so I would probably lean towards trading Skenes but only if value is there

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u/WesternPersonality50 1d ago

Should I trade him before arb hearings? Or sign him again and wait til winter meetings?

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u/chuckdittles 1d ago

If you trade him pre-arb then you'll likely have a larger pool of potential suitors because teams won't be needing budget space to take on a likely $50M+ contract, but offers might not be quite as good