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Armchair Fantasy Baseball: Archives / Re: Extension & Free Agent Compensation Rule Discussion
« on: February 10, 2019, 09:05:19 PM »We could update extensions and have an "extension floor". We could use the average MLB salary for the prior year (2018 was $4,095,686). We can tie player percentile to pay within Armchair for extensions.
I think the Type A and B free agents allow teams to recoup a little for top players leaving. A compensatory round would be added just like MLB.
To Shane's point, we should have a scale to where the $$$ amount gives you options on years; for example, a minimum contract of $500K should only be allowed for 1 yr while say $10M+ is 3-5yrs or $17M is no less than 5yrs on renewal.
Brent's idea of resigning a declining player for less is good but I'd up the percentage some to say 75 or 80%.
I think we should also look at buyouts. I still think full contract should be paid, but it should be able to be rolled into one year contract that hits the cap the same year. For instance, Pujols has 3y $30M remaining and retires. The team can buy him out 1y 30M instead of hurting future caps. In the event the team can't, the following season it could pay 1y $20M (because they already paid $10m in 2018). It allows the player to still get paid, the team to still get hit, and the benefits of freeing future cap.
Some thoughts...
“We could update extensions and have an "extension floor". We could use the average MLB salary for the prior year (2018 was $4,095,686). We can tie player percentile to pay within Armchair for extensions.”
This is already the case. If you mean just updating the floor to something lower and extension values relative to player percentile to be more accurate then yeah I agree they could use updating.
“I think the Type A and B free agents allow teams to recoup a little for top players leaving. A compensatory round would be added just like MLB.”
I like this. Could just decide on a limit for compensation to kick in similar to the $50M threshold in MLB. When a FA contract goes over the set $$$ marker then it triggers the team who had him before to receive a comp pick. Keeps it simple. I wouldn’t penalize teams who sign the FAs or involve international J2 money like real life just to keep it from getting messy.
“To Shane's point, we should have a scale to where the $$$ amount gives you options on years; for example, a minimum contract of $500K should only be allowed for 1 yr while say $10M+ is 3-5yrs or $17M is no less than 5yrs on renewal.”
Not quite the point I was trying to make. I think this is flawed. For example, what about players like Nelson Cruz who is being bid on right now? His bidding is up to 17.2M right now. It’s hardly fair to force him to be signed for 3 or 5 years. I don’t think there should be any rules like this. Let the market decide. Everybody bidding on Cruz right now is limiting it to 1 or 2 years, justifiably so. Let owners use their money however they want. If we have to have a rule on this it should only affect cheap contracts. For example, any contract whose total value is 6M or less should be no longer than 3 years.