A very OOTP trade deadline

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Regular readers here will recall that I enjoy the computer game Out Of The Park.  Since it's a game and I'm not hurting anyone, I abuse some of its features without remorse.  In particular, there is often no sense of there being 24 hours in a day.  So, as GM in the game, my typical style is to do a top-to-bottom assessment of every level of my franchise's farm system and 40-man on the first day of the off-season, then I use the trading interface to sell off every questionable asset that has trade value, in exchange for players who fit my preferences better.  All this in one day of game-time.

Normally I feel as though a dozen trades in one day is a serious betrayal of reality.

Now I feel fine.  Even if yesterday was the trade deadline, not the first day after the World Series, I have confirmation that it can be done. 

What REALLY gave me the OOTP vibe, though, was the Correa deal.  Sometimes I do everything I can to move an untradeable contract.  Falvey didn't pull out all the stops, such as packaging Carlos with Jhoan for instance, but applying $30M of money this year to free up space for the coming years is a very OOTP kind of thing to do.  It happens now and then in real life - Falvey didn't invent anything here - but it still reflects the same mindset as the game.

I can't help chuckling.  Sometimes we say a player is putting up video-game numbers.  Thursday was a video-game day for our GM.