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Originally Posted by sandman2575

Is there really nothing a MLB team can do with players, with 5+ years MLB experience, who refuse assignment? I'm sure the contract law involved here is very complicated (and that agents are very savvy about how to manipulate such things in favor of their clients) -- but couldn't some sort of legal action be brought against a player who outright refused to do his job as specified by his employer? Or some kind of suspension that would affect the player's collection of salary?

That's why I just deactivated the 'players can refuse assignment' option -- it just seems like it leads to an impasse (in effect, blackmail) where your only option is to release a player and swallow the rest of his salary, which it seems to me a real-life MLB team would have ways around.

It's part of the CBA a freely negotiated contract that stipulates how player contracts must be paid out. The right to refuse assignment was bargained for and given through negotiation. I'm sure the players had to give on other issues.

I don't think there is anything complicated about contracts. I've worked under a few and everything is clearly set out. I personally love them as there is no doubt of what your rights and obligations are. You seem to feel that a player exercising his contractual rights is using "blackmail" but a team trying to escape it's obligations is doing nothing wrong. Kind of a warped view of proper behavior eh?

Edit; In the game you can do whatever you want. I took your comment to apply to real life.