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Originally Posted by BMW
The game clearly takes current season's performance into account. So at the beginning of the season, it's very common to have the odd superstar each season to have a few bad weeks and be sporting a .220 average or 6.00 ERA. When you run across these guys, the game can let you sign them for quite a bit under their market value.
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Lets just look at it from a player standpoint and forget the team. Clearly for an extension to be signed, both the team AND the player must agree to it. Why on earth would a player who is having a bad start to the season sign an extension that was heavily based on those stats when they could just wait til the end of the season and hopefully have much better stats by then?
IMHO this is beyond the realm of being improbable...this is ludicrous, ridiculous, and any other term you could think of. It would NEVER happen. Period. It's not even about "Well, it COULD happen, so its technically not unrealistic." It would NEVER happen. There is not one player in baseball you can show me who signed a multiyear extension for $11 million less per year in early May. If he did, his agent should find a new job immediately because he will never get another client ever again.
So regardless of what the team is thinking, the player should basically laugh at the deal, tell the team to kick boulders, and tell them we will take it to free agency. The player is helping the team out by basically saying "You're right. I am sucking the first month and a half of the season this year, so let me take an $11 million per year pay cut starting next year."
Markus...you can't be serious with having this stuff happen, can you? This is so ridiculous to have this sort of thing happening, it seems like something that would have been a bug to report in version 1 or 2, not 10...