[endgame]

Okay. I found a saved league file and looked more closely at his situation. You're right. The pulldown option was there. He was listed as 1 contract year remaining at $0 and a 5 year extension at ~150,000 per year. So what likely happened was when I discovered him still listed on my team, but without a contract, I gave him an extension rather than offering a contract outright (I'm guessing, but it's the only way I can see $0 dollars for the remaining contract making any sense). The result was that the year of the extension went way out to 2270 or whatever it was.

I used the pulldown to set the remaining years to 2 (arbitrarily) with a dollar amount (it doesn't matter how much) and left the extension alone. The year reset to a normal looking figure and the problem, such as it was, seemed to go away. The cause of the real problem, which was why he vacated my personnel page but still showed listed as belonging to my team, still remains unexplained and may never be understood. At least if someone brings up this issue, we'll have a notion about how to correct it anyhow.

As far as I'm concerned, yes, you can close it now. Some things we'll just never know.