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Old 12-11-2011, 02:33 PM   #2
SandMan
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Originally Posted by rng9598 View Post
When a player suffers a career ending injury (such as a player in Spring Training in an online league that I'm in), how much of the remaining years (4 years, around 35MIL) of his remaining contract is counted against payroll?

Put the player on the disabled list, don't release him. You will only be charged with the 1 year salary. If you release him you would be stuck for all 4 years, so it is important to put him on the DL and he will retire at year end.
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