FYI, the inept GM that gave the money out to Vernon Wells was not in Franchise GM, but in MLB. Ricciardi, the assistant to Billy Beane in Oakland, either thought it was a great idea or ownership pressed it on him to do.
That was my point - we won't offer any exceptions to Wells' owner to shed the bad contract just because it was given by an MLB owner.
I'm not really sold one way or the other, my only request is that we move past the pre/post initial contract mind-frame and treat them all equally. We've all inherited contracts from someone, there shouldn't be exceptions made because my bad contracts came from an MLB owner and not yours that came from another FGM owner.