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To be fair Votto is only owed 10M, the rest is paid. I think the easiest solution here is to raise the floor and lower the reward. That eliminates almost every single bad contract you just listed from being donated without ruining the overall scheme. 1000+ 1st round supplemental pick + 1M Int. Funds800-999 2nd round supplemental pick + 500k Int. Funds600-800 3rd round supplemental pick + 250k Int. Funds300-600 150k Int. Funds0-300 not eligible for donation.
So are we moving the goal post on donations or not?
My preference is to stick with orginal layout as per opening post here.That said another thing we are discussing is possibly updating salaries on some of these players, if not all, to be real life contract instead of some of these ugly contracts we have here. This would harm open teams much less.
I do think we need to continue to eliminate anyone that has officially signed overseas, but this is a very valid concern as well. Many of these donations are salary dumps that likely actually make these empty teams worse off...and not only that, but the donating team not only gets out from under the bad contract, but they get something in return for it. I think the only way these donations are worth anything is if the donating team retains the salary for the life of the contract. Even with the large amounts of money that some teams have available, mine included, I can't imagine any team giving up anything of value for these guys...literally if I was taking over one of these teams and had a free drop or a drop at a reduced price, it would be all of these guys. Therefore, I fully support the salary adjustment Vik mentioned for all of these players.Joey Votto making 20M through his 40 year old seasonHa-Seong Kim @ 18M for 4 more yearsAdam Eaton @ 11M for 3 more yearsMatt Carpenter @ 21M for 2 more yearsMike Minor already passed through waivers @ 6M, so he literally could not be given awayGarrett Richards @ 18M for 2 more yearsBrand Hand @ 10M for 4 more years
I loved this idea initially, but I just don?t think it accomplishes what it set out to accomplish. It gives marginal at best players to teams that don?t likely want them, so it doesn?t improve the rosters at all. Additionally it?s a massive boost to existing teams, in some cases giving more than 20M in cap space to spend immediately while also giving them an award for gaining cap space. I just think the idea needs to be walked back. I could live with the fact that I think it?s unfair to give teams an award and a free drop if it truly made these teams better, but it simply doesn?t