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I agree - I miss this feature that was removed. The game is fair too along to not have such a simple feature that has been in games for years and years. I know they removed it with the new FA system and that was "fine" for year one, but to not add it back in this year is just sad.

Here's an idea but if having it in the new FA system was the problem then remove it for FA contracts but add it in for extensions. Yes, teams will back/frontload FA contracts but they 100% do it for extensions (thinking pre-FA eligible extensions mostly here so sub 6 years of service time)

Am I the only one noticing massive increases to arbitration? For example, Logan Gilbert is supposedly going from $10M to $31M in his last year before FA. In reality, he’s likely going to ~$17M, not $31M.

The game is really suggesting he deserves to match Skubal from last year? Love the M’s but come on. Saw this issue across many many arbitration outcomes.

Budget increasing or not doesn't change the fact that arbitration numbers are astronomically too high. Logan Gilbert is not coming remotely close to $31-33MM next year. He won't even touch $20M next year in his final arb year.

Budget increasing or not would just be bandaid, it's still an extremely poor arbitration process and that throws off extensions as well. Bryan Woo, who will be arb eligible for the first of three times entering next year, will likely make $6M in '27, $12M in '28 and $18-20M in '29 before being a free agent. (I used Gilbert and George Kirby's arb numbers for the range he'd get)

That is a total of $36-38MM in those three years but the game wants $27MM on average for those three years or just over $81MM.

Arb process is completely broken.

Thought I'd get a temperature check to see what people think the over/under is on the number of new features in '23 for Franchise. In 2021, SDS did a ton of work to bring us... Player Metric 1.0 and the epic depth returned from previous years. After doing too much in '21, the team needed to narrow the amount of Franchise improvements because player metric 1.0 was just too much for one year so they brought us... yes, you guessed it correct. They added Player Metric 2.0 in '22. I'm going to set the over/under at 1.5 features being added. I'm going under but will happily be wrong, but come on, it's been like 5 or 6 years since the mode saw any noticeable improvements.

Dang, the patch doesn't seem to have helped. Still seeing insane arb numbers and thus insane contract extension prices (non free agent contract offers).

I wish they'd just do a deal with spotrac or mlbtraderumors and have them create a model. Their models aren't perfect but they are far, far better. If I ran business ops for SDS, I'd be on the phone with spotrac or mlbtr and offer to have the arb tile card be sponsored/powered by __. Let them own it, they are better, and you both cross promote the change so free marketing as well. Win/win for them and win for us with a more realistic contract process.

I did as well. Glad others have too! Franchise isn't off to a hot start in '26 with this and the save issues...