Do I let two franchise legends retire naturally, or force the issue?
I’m deep into the longest OOTP save I’ve ever played, and I’ve reached a situation I’ve never really dealt with before.
I have two players who have been with the Cape Town Storm for essentially their entire MLB careers. They were part of the core that helped turn this team into a dynasty, and both are now getting old enough that their declining production is starting to make it difficult to justify keeping them on the active roster.
The two players are Bryan Goodwin (33) and Abdel-Alim Gethii (34).
Goodwin is my first non-1st-rounder to make it big. Gethii is a hometown boy that AI generated to fill my lower league teams after an expansion draft. Both have obviously declined significantly. At this point, they're bench-bats, and generally I prefer younger or platoon guys. Their numbers will be retired and I will not accept seeing them play on another team. So I'm torn between two options:
Keep them around on cheap, short-term contracts until they decide to retire naturally.
Force-retire them through Commissioner Mode.
What would you do? Is there any benefit to it happening naturally, for example a nice mail prompt describing the players career?
