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Originally Posted by toxicavenger74
So, to follow up on this point. You could theorectically manage the salary floor by managing the minimum salary. The problem that it might cause is that teams will spend more money on lower tiered players that they would have anyway and not be able to afford better players and then cause them to obtain league minimum players to replace the more expensive players.
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I don't know of any way to make a salary floor force teams to sign (good + more expensive) players. It just makes you spend.
What if you have $10M/year player who retires all of a sudden in the middle of spring training, and you were right at the floor? All the good free agents long since signed, so you're basically forced to hand out money to whoever will take it.
I can see how a salary floor would end up making mediocre free agents more expensive just to get an otherwise fiscally well-designed team over the floor.