[chucksabr]

Has anybody ever tried a fictional league in which the ML service requirement to achieve free agency was set at one year—meaning, in effect, everyone in the league not signed to a multi-year contract is a free agent every year? If so, how did it play out? Was it chaos, or did it sort itself out logically?

And just as importantly, how did a freewheeling free agency market affect the salaries? I have always suspected that if the majors had allowed every player to be a free agent every year, salaries would have stayed much lower over time because supply would have glutted the market and created a perpetual buyer's market, rather than the current system of having a tightly-restricted supply of veterans which creates a seller's market.

Any feedback on that?