General Description - From this page, you are able to bring back coaches from the previous season without having to worry about higher offers coming in from other franchises. Only certain coaches will choose to come back and some may want a promotion in playing level or role. Meet their demands, and they'll return without any negotiations needed. If you choose not to re-hire a coach, then you'll have to risk losing him to another franchise during the all-out coach negotiations stage.

Coaching Role Description - The big league level requires 7 coaches and each minor league level requires 3 coaches. The fielding instructor is a roving coach that impacts player development at each level. Bench coaches at the minor league level play a role in all facets of player development. Pitching coaches and bullpen coaches impact pitcher ratings. Hitting coaches, 1B coaches and 3B coaches impact hitting and baserunning ratings.

Status, Rehiring Begins - You can only rehire coaches during a specific timeline during the season schedule. This lists the date/time when rehiring can begin.

Status, Rehiring Ends - You can only rehire coaches during a specific timeline during the season schedule. This lists the date/time when rehiring ends. Once the rehiring process has ended you will be able to negotiate with all of the available coaches in the World to fill any vacant spots you may have.

Status, Coaching Staff Budget - This is the amount you assigned to the coaching staff from your franchise budget.

Status, Total Salary From Signed Coaches - This is the amount you've already spent locking up coaches for the season.

Status, Required Minimum Remaining - This is the minimum amount you have to spend in order to fill all available coaching positions.

Status, Additional After Minimum - This is the amount you have to play with above the minimum required. Use this money to bring in the guys you want molding your players!

Coaching Needs - This chart shows you your franchise's coaching staff broken down by level and role. The big league team has 7 roles whereas the minor league clubs only have 3. The chart lists the minimum salary for each role as well as the coach in place if the slot is filled. You can click on the coach's name for his Coach Profile. The number in parenthesis indicates how many vacancies there are at that role and level. If that number is high you can expect a bidding war for that combination.

Coach List, Exp - This is the amount of professional experience the coach has had. For more complete details regarding his coaching history, click on his name for his Profile.

Coach List, Dmd Level - This is the demanded level that the coach would like to coach at.

Coach List, Dmd Role - This is the demanded role the coach would like to serve. The role abbreviations are taken from the Coaching Needs chart.

- This is the coach's hitting IQ rating. The higher the rating, the more he'll help your players develop their batting skills.

- This is the coach's pitching IQ rating. The higher the rating, the more he'll help your players develop their pitching skills.

- This is the coach's fielding IQ rating. The higher the rating, the more he'll help your players develop their fielding skills.

- This is the coach's baserunning IQ rating. The higher the rating, the more he'll help your players develop their baserunning skills.

- This is the coach's patience rating. The higher the rating, the easier it will be for him to tolerate and coach younger players. Of course, if he's really good in the other areas, his lack of patience may be acceptable.

- This is the coach's strategy rating. The higher the rating, the more likely he'll succeed as a bench coach. Bench coaches are important, because they can improve/hurt the day-to-day management operations of a minor league franchise as well as affect in-game decision making (even at the big league level if the manager gets ejected). They generally have different managerial settings than the ones you've set, for instance.

- This is the coach's discipline rating. The higher the rating, the more focused he'll be on the fundamentals such as bunting, throwing strikes and hitting the cutoff man. Of course, this means he'll spend less time on some of the other important aspects of his role.

- This is the coach's loyalty rating. The higher the rating, the more likely the coach is to re-sign with your club.

Outlook - This is the coach's current outlook for the season. There are four possible directions he can take:

- this coach will sign with you automatically for his demanded salary

- this coach will sign with you automatically at a different level than he coached at in the previous season for his demanded salary.

- this coach will sign with you automatically at a different role than he coached at in the previous season for his demanded salary.

- this coach will not sign with you, because he wants to test the market this season. You will have to negotiate with him when the open coaching negotiations start.

Level - Use this drop down to select the level for your coach. You can only select a level that is equal to or higher than the current level your coach is demanding. If the coach is not willing to resign with your franchise the drop down will be disabled. Please note that you can only promote Minor League coaches.

Role - Use this drop down to select the role for your coach. The options in the drop down list are relevant to that coaches demands.

New Salary - This is how much you will pay the coach if you rehire him at the level/role combination you select. 

Rehire - If you want to rehire a single coach, simply check the box that corresponds to his row. If you want to rehire all of your coaches in one click, check the box directly under the column header named "Rehire". Be aware that some coaches may be demanding the same role and level. In this case you can not hire both of them, you must choose one or wait to sign a new coach when open coaching negotiations start.

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