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@siberiatigercub_psn
I’ve been playing RTTS since MLB the Show released their first title, this (team performance) has always been a problem. However, that’s baseball. I’m cursed to being a Mariners fan so my team is especially bad, but I think the focal point of the problem if you choose to look at it, is what moves the GMs make for the team you’re on. Year after year of RTTS and within each career I have in each RTTS title, I notice trades that make no sense for my team. I.e, last year the Mariners signed Judge for a record deal, but it absolutely gutted every other star on the team in terms of available payroll. No way in real life a GM would sign 1 guy to lose the other 8 starters ya know? I will say this year has been better, but still lost a lot of guys through free agency. After one season (so end of 2026 going into 2027) the only Mariners that were resigned (or already had a contract) by management were Julio Rodriguez, Cal Raleigh, Bryan Woo, Logan Gilbert, George Kirby and Josh Naylor. The next season the GM traded several of those names away for prospects despite us being about 10 games over .500.
It’s not necessarily that it’s predetermined, I just think it’s CPU logic. It’s computing 1s and 0s assigning values to players and it makes trades and signs/releases players on that rather than considering what it does for the teams success