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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
Time value of money. You said it in your second sentence. 1987 dollars aren't worth as much as 1985 dollars.
400/400/800 is less (in 1985 dollars) than 500/500/500.
Offer 1400/100/100 and see what happens
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I will defer to your wisdom with ootp. So, thank you for letting me know about that. I assumed since wanted $1.5M overall and I offered $1.6M overall, plus an option to turn that into $2.5M overall - a full million more than he was looking for, not to mention the incentives, it would be attractive.
What I don't get, a player is very happy where he is and wants to stay there with a new deal. I offer him a deal structured a little different, but at a minimum $100K more than he asked. So, why wouldn't he say "I would really prefer what I asked for...", not increase his demand as if I insulted him. Maybe I just don't understand the economics of baseball very well yet.