We discovered a bug where if you have independent leagues then some scrubs demands for contract years got screwed up. That will be fixed in the next patch to come out in the next couple weeks.
We are also in the process this week of doing some balancing on contracts. Relievers likely had too large demands up to now, but to be fair, real life provides us with a lot of relievers getting large contracts that they don't deserve:
The sad list of the 10 highest-paid relievers - SBNation.com