In the offseason when you are resigning free agents, there is a very effective way of saving lots of money for free agency without being cheap and changing stats. Instead of lowering and raising stats, just go to "View Roster" and convert all of your starters and closers into relievers. Resign all of them to small deals worth at most about $3 million a year. Once you sign them, change them back into their original position. It might not sound like much but if you have a $19 million pitcher like Johan Santana, it can be a lot of free cash. This will also work with turning slow players into the 2B or SS position and resigning them, or turning small players into the C or 1B position and resigning them.