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Originally Posted by mgoetze
Certainly not in an arbitrated contract but it would definitely be interesting to offer an arbitration-eligible player a one-year contract below arbitration estimate which guarantees he will play in the majors, wouldn't it?
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Not really. It's not realistic, Contracts are guaranteed, unless you propose to change that. In real life player agents would counter that strategy by having their clients go for the money, stating quite correctly that the player assumes he will perform well enough to stay in MLB. Teams would quickly learn that an under market contract that forces them to keep a young player on the 25 man roster is just a cheaper millstone. Imagine the outrage when a team can't call up a phenom because he plays the same position or a better performing player has to be sent down (that happens now). From a team perspective you really couldn't have too many such contracts because there would be no waivers to help out.
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