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Ace of Spades
At first I was saying how the qualifying offer system needs to change, but then I flipped and started thinking that agents and their clients need to better examine their market. Everyone was expecting players to decline a few years ago, but now that a couple players have in the past year, they are starting to realize no team wants to give a first rounder for a fringe player who might not be worth a pick to teams
Blue_Painted_Dreams_LA
Then that depresses the market. The whole point behind free agency is to give players the best opportunity to choose where they would like to play and obtain a multi year contract. I’m not saying that the whole system needs to change but it should be fixed. Teams already get about 11 years of team control for high school kids and 10 for college kids if they are placed on the 40 man. They also can’t obtain free agency until 6 season in the minors if left there. So they could essentially string out a player who is afraid that he won’t get a job if he denies the QO. I like the idea of a 3-4 year commitment upon extending the QO. Such a system excludes teams from just QOing players to obtain picks and it also give players a somewhat long term commitment. I get the need for obtaining compensation, but I’m also pro players especially those that’ll never get that one huge contract.
TheMichigan
Can someone make less in arbitration than they did the year before? Is that even possible or do they have to make the same/more than they did the year before
Blue_Painted_Dreams_LA
If they’re injured I believed they can make no less than 20%. I’m not exactly positive.
Ace of Spades
They almost always get salary raises in arb