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Originally Posted by Pelican
What I see more frequently is a player responding to a decent offer by not changing his position. At all. But this may be dependent on the circumstances. I'm usually trying to resurrect a moribund franchise, and the player may want to move onto a contender.
What bothers me much more is bewildering responses from young, pre-arb players I want to lock up on multi-year contracts. Remember, I don't have to do anything, and he makes the minimum, no matter how good he is. So I offer multiple years at several million a year. The response is not to ask for more, but to ask for a single year contract - at less money! This is important to me, because I think teams are missing the chance to lock up young players, by paying value early, regardless of the continued unreasonable restraints on players' earning in their first three years.
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I'm with you there. It does get frustrating. I usually play with a low market team, or an expansion team(Montreal), so I have to be cost savvy. When I offer a multi-year deal at more than his one year asking price, the player will respond with, like the money, but not number of years, then he'll ask for a one year deal for "more money." Maybe he feels, hey, if they have that kind of money, why not ask for more for one year, which does make some sense I guess.
Tripling his original asking price, or more maybe would get a deal done, but I don't have the money of a Dodgers or Red Sox team. I never tried that, but perhaps one time I will, just to see what happens.