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Originally Posted by snepp
My best guess.
As he's still under the free agent threshold for service time, the projected payroll is still seeing him as an arbitration eligible player for the upcoming season and is including his projected arbitration reward into the future budget calculations.
When attempting to extend a player in this situation you're able to offer up to that projected arbitration reward in the first season of the extension as it won't increase that projected payroll figure.
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This. I have had this happen many times as well.