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Originally posted by JAttractive
First of all it is NOT always cheaper this way. If you can bring up a guy at a very young age he may not even be fully developed when the 5 years are up so you CAN sign him for less on a long term deal overall. These guys are 19-20 so yes, that may apply to them.
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I did not explain enough why this is cheaper: if you bring up player A at age 25, his age 25~30 would be covered by arbitration. If you bring him up at age 20, you'd have to pay BIG for those 25~30 ages since it's after free agency. The price diffrence is often more than 10 times more for the total 5 years. What you get is of course the age 20~25 years.
Moneywise, that's not really that good an idea.
An sample:
Age Winshares (1) (2)
20 15 300k
21 16 300k
22 17 3000k
23 18 5000k
24 19 7000k
25 20 10000k 300k
26 21 10000k 300k
27 22 10000k 4000k
28 21 10000k 6000k
29 20 10000k 8000k
In the first case, the player was brought up at age 20, and signed an 10mil/year deal. In the second one, the player was brought up at age 25.
In the first case, it's 65600k for 188 win shares. In the second, it's 18600k for 104 win shares!!! That's why I said you don't really understand the salary game!