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I just had an issue with this in my league. I just recently switched from reserve era ball to now I have arbitration.

And so i now am dealing with multi year contracts and the like. No free agency yet (well, there is but you need whatever the max service time is 25 years or something, setting it to 1 year arbitration and no free agency essentially broke the game and it reverted itself to no arbitration and no free agency, but anyway)

I signed a stud SS to a 4 year contract. Year 1, he takes a big pay cut. Year 2, he gets a huge raise, of almost 100k. and it gives him more money than the salary he had when he signed the new extension. Then year 3 and 4 give him huge pay raises, that would result in him busting the highest ever salary by huge amounts, totally to the first ever 1 million plus contract ever awarded in my league.

But, those final two huge years, are team options
and zero dollar buy outs

So yeah, I have no intention of giving him those years.