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Originally Posted by Matter2003
Actually it wouldn't prevent it at all. It would just make the team that wants to offer him a nonsensical extension compete with the 29 other teams because the player would go to free agency. If they made a better or comparable offer, the player could always choose to go back to them... It would just force the AI to behave like things do in real life...
Think about it...what if your boss called you in the office today and said "We would love to have you here for a while, and we know you are a valuable part of the team. We know you are making $50,000 in salary this year, but moving forward, we are only able to offer you $7,000 per year for the next 5 years. What do you say?"
If you didn't get up and punch your boss right in the face for even suggesting this to you, you would probably tell the guy to go kick boulders, only in not so nice language...
This is the exact same situation that just occurred in what I brought up. The team offered the player an extension for 5 years at 14% of his current salary, and the player said YES!!...
The only place where something like this would be considered acceptable is the Twilight Zone, and it might even be a stretch for them to think its OK...
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You are right on with this debate. The biggest decline in salary I can every remember(which is VERY rare) was Bernie Williams taking a pay cut from around 12 million to 1.7 million(not exactly sure) but I would be all for you system to eliminate this ridiculous stuff like the Bonderman and Jeter examples.
Bernie was 37 and coming off a season where he had an OBS+ of 85. Basically it was his only chance to still play.