[Afino]

Tribe, I don't think the issue is with them signing contracts. As you said, it's agreeable to do that instead of going to arbitration.

But I think the issue is why only one year contracts? Obviously most of these players are good enough to merit long-term contracts (see Sizemore, Longoria, etc). So why aren't they signing long-term deals in the game too instead of one-year deals?

I think the system is working as intended, but the actual contracts aren't.