Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

[VTWiseGuy]

I am in 2025 with the reds. My two big FA pick ups are Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Gary Sanchez. I made the playoffs back to back years and lost in the 1st rd in both. Should I get a new team to rebuild or keep on till I win a WS. If I do rebuild looking for a bad team with young stars with a great farm system. I will not be signing no FA's in my 2nd franchise just working with the farm teams.

[Caulfield]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

ride it out till you win it all or get fired trying. unless you have G.M. Contracts off. then, by all means, reboot w/new team asap lol

[VTWiseGuy]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

ride it out till you win it all or get fired trying. unless you have G.M. Contracts off. then, by all means, reboot w/new team asap lol

I got GM contracts off. I am seeing alot of 90+ players killing rosters.....ya, I think I am going to go with a new team.

[bigcgt27]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

I've found that when I invest a lot of time into a franchise, and then start over with something else, I have a hard time getting reinvested into a new team and end up restarting a number of times (and sometimes never finding that good match and losing interest in the game overall).

[Shosum13]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

I got GM contracts off. I am seeing alot of 90+ players killing rosters.....ya, I think I am going to go with a new team.

If you're looking for a challenge to rebuild check out my team the Tigers. They have quite a few good pitching prospects but really nothing when it comes to positional players. This will let you mold their lineup to fit the way you like to play through the draft and strategically trading and signing FAs.

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[Shosum13]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

I've found that when I invest a lot of time into a franchise, and then start over with something else, I have a hard time getting reinvested into a new team and end up restarting a number of times (and sometimes never finding that good match and losing interest in the game overall).

I don't have that problem with MLB because it's such a time investment to finish seasons so I usually only end up playing with 1 team. But I see where your coming from because I have the same issue with Madden. After putting a ton of time in to 1 franchise I'll end up starting about 4 or 5 others because I can't get settled with another team.

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[Funkycorm]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

I got GM contracts off. I am seeing alot of 90+ players killing rosters.....ya, I think I am going to go with a new team.

The massive amount of 90+ players is definitely a buzz kill. I have spent a lot of time in my 2026 Indians adjusting ratings across the league. The high amount of 85+ players is a side effect of rosters with a lot of A and high B potential.

[TexSkins]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

Do a moneyball challenge franchise. I’m about to start mine with a max $41 mil payroll every season. Trick is, don’t beef up your team with underpaid studs around the league. Maybe put an OVR limit when you trade for someone.

[VTWiseGuy]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

Well it took me to 2025 and I made it to the WS with the Reds and lost in game 6 to Boston. I am done with the Reds and going to start a new one either to rebuild or moneyball one. Any suggests? Teams to rebuild or moneyball with?

Thinking about doing one with the lowest payroll and go with it.

[JackNCoke]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

I personally think that the Rays are a fun team to play with even with the absolutely awful stadium.

You start out with a decent team.

You have less than half of Red Sox and Yankees budgets in your division. Blue Jays should get better in time. So you have 2.5 competitors for the division crown.

The key to doing this is not really letting yourself do any big free agent signings (limit the max yearly salary figure). Also when one of your players is approaching free agency in a little over a year or two. Trade him for some prospects (I’d look at the trade discussion post for fair values etc.) rinse and repeat. Yeah it sucks you have to play in the dome. But at some point it kind of grows on you at least in my experience. You get some interesting unis, a limited budget, you get to play in Fenway, Camden yards even if the O’s are awful this is a top 5 ball park and you get to try to take down the evil empire.

If you’d rather go national league my suggestion would be the pirates for similar reasons other than the main difference being a beautiful home park. But you’ve already down NL central so perhaps that’s not the best.

[Caulfield]

Re: Need help. Start with a new team or stick it out?

I personally think that the Rays are a fun team to play with even with the absolutely awful stadium.

You start out with a decent team.


You have less than half of Red Sox and Yankees budgets in your division. Blue Jays should get better in time. So you have 2.5 competitors for the division crown.


The key to doing this is not really letting yourself do any big free agent signings (limit the max yearly salary figure). Also when one of your players is approaching free agency in a little over a year or two. Trade him for some prospects (I’d look at the trade discussion post for fair values etc.) rinse and repeat. Yeah it sucks you have to play in the dome. But at some point it kind of grows on you at least in my experience. You get some interesting unis, a limited budget, you get to play in Fenway, Camden yards even if the O’s are awful this is a top 5 ball park and you get to try to take down the evil empire ...

I'm no Rays fan by any stretch but Sony's Trop is a hundred times better than the IRL Trop, and it has as much history as any stadium in the division excepting Fenway. MORE than Yankee Stadium. yessir, give me Sony's Trop over St. Pete's any day of the week.