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I had my thumb on the Submit button then chickened out...I need some support here! I'm managing the Yankees and trying to shed their massive payroll.

To Colorado:

Jorge Posada
Carl Pavano
Mariano Rivera

To Yankees

Yorvit Torreabla
Jeff Francis
Manny Corpas

I realize that in real life trading Rivera and Posada would probably earn me a public hanging in the Bronx but when you look at the numbers it makes sense. Both are over 35 and cost a fortune. I'm in my first season but I hear that players decline rapidly after 35 in MLBPP. Plus, getting rid of Pavano is every Yankees fan's dream.

I don't remember exactly the salaries - I'm at work right now, obviously working very hard, so I can't fire up the Wii and check. I do remember that I would save a fair bit of cash.

You made some great points....
Here are the salaries for everyone....
Rockies Players
Corpas- 390
Torrealba- 3620
Francis- 3100
Yankees Players
Posada- 13100
M. Rivera- 15000
Pavano- 10500

You could really make a "splash" in F/A if this trade goes.

I don't think that's a great trade, I think you may be able to find some other more talented players to trade for.

Posada's amazing! Just pt his slary down, if you need to get rid of yer shortstop, David Eckstein is WA better than A-Rod in the game. A i would get rid of the other 2, but get some better players for them!

but he got rid of so much salary though.

Pavano is suprisingly very easy to trade, don't say yes. Trade Pavano seperately for a hunk of cash or a load of cash and a decent player. With the Yankees and their pitching depth in game, I'd take the hunk of cash and maybe dip into the free-agent market. Have Kartsens or Joba start instead (I raised Joba's stamina to C).

Yeah now for my opinion, (the other post was a information post)
Go for the 1 for 1 player trades instead of 3 for 3 players.
And Kennedy, Hughes, can start for you.

1 on 1 trades are best? Makes sense. I traded Mussina for Bedard straight up and that seemed like a good deal. I've been shopping Pavano 1 for 1 and can't seem to find a good deal, hence the package I've assembled.

One problem I have with the game in general is that you can't use a normal 5 man rotation because they don't recover from their starts fast enough. So, Pavano is my spot starter at the moment and anybody I get in return for him basically has to have minimum B stamina.

Good trade. Getting rid of old players (Rivera, Mussina etc.) to clear a 200k salary. It is difficult playing the yankee's.

How do you shop trades? Are you talking about just saving before attempting the trade and then reloading if it doesn't go through?

No basically just looking at the number of stars the trade gets before hitting the Request button. I look for at least 3 stars as per the manual.

I usually go for 2 "stars"...
When you have 3, it seems like the computer knows that it is getting the better deal in the trade.
And 1 "stars" don't usually go through.

Really I've been getting hosed then because somebody told me that it wasn't even worth submitting a 2 star trade because they never go through. This news opens up my Pavano trading abilities greatly.

Yeah 2 stars can go through.....
But I really stay away from 1, you have to s/l like 100 times.

2 stars can go through with S/L.

I stand by Sparkplug, 1 star trades are almost impossible.