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Voting thus far1) Management of salary caps for not just current year but future 5-6 years. This is something we are doing in New Era and is much more realistic for a franchises' books. It also prevents GMs from financially ruining future years with cash exchanges.YAY - Roy, DanNAY - Colby (vote changed as representative of small market teams), Howe (would approve 30% above cap), Ben2) Should prospect extensions be the only type of extensions allowable for expired contracts in the offseason? If so, should we adopt a short window to do this such as two weeks? I say we allow expiring prospect contracts to be signed to regular extensions after the season ends, but not to prospect extensions per our current rules.YAY - Roy (deadline of January 1st / FA), Colby, Dan, BenNAY - 3) I am suggesting a rule change that says contract extensions can be done one of two ways. The first is a traditional extension which is only allowable in the last year of the current contract. The extension is added on in future years. For example, a 2011 contract could get a three year extension starting in 2012 and ending in 2014. The second is our current type of extensions which is essentially a new contract overwriting the old one. We have minimum and maximum years protecting this new contract status.YAY - Roy (any time), Colby (one year prior), Dan, Ben (only do actual extensions one year prior)NAY - Howe (wants to keep it simple, but allow 6-year deal)4) Prince Fielder Rule - Should regular extensions on expiring contracts not be allowed AFTER the season? For example, an extension in November 2011 for what was a 2011 contract. It really isn't feasible to have this for such a realistic league. This puts more honus on the trade deadline and free agency. YAY - Colby, Roy, Dan (I believe you are for this), Howe, Ben (your vote was no, but your explanation suggested these should not be allowed, a lot of double negatives to sort through)NAY - 5) In addition to our 60-day NTC rule, any players signed to extensions and FA contracts in the offseason cannot be traded until June 1st the following year.YAY - Roy, Dan, Howe, ColbyNAY - 6) Dan's suggeston of allowing to extend players to salaries less than their current, effective after their current contract. This is an addendum on to Rule #3.YAY - DanNAY - Colby (have them go to FA if you want lower salary)7) Ben's suggestion of having an extension deadline on players with expiring contracts coincide with the trade deadine (approximately 60 days before end of season).YAY - Ben, Colby
I just wanted to throw something in the mix. It is something I have suggested before. Allowing teams to sign a player to extensions, that are at his current value, but below his current contract value. The extensions would start the following year. There would obviously have to be a minimum amount of years in order to do this. A prime example of this is Aaron Harang. His contract in 2010 was for 10 mil, his value was in the 6 mil range. If we had a rule like this in place, then the Dodgers (the team that owned him at the time) could have resigned him for an additional 3 years at 6 mil. Also, if the dodgers wanted to trade him in 2011 (when the contract would have kicked in) they would have had to wait until June 1.