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12-05-2019, 01:38 PM | #1 |
Minors (Rookie Ball)
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Your owner will not approve this contract
I attempted to negotiate a long-term extension with a star player in just his third year in the league.
He was asking for an 8 year deal worth about 120 million. It asked for only 1.5 million the next season (in what would be his first arb year), 6 mil the 2nd year and then approximately 16 million for each remaining season on the contract. I was willing to do it and went to submit and was told my owner wouldn't let me submit a contract proposal that isn't more evenly distributed throughout the life of the contract. That seems silly as the player is offering me a huge discount for year 1. When I try and redistribute the contract more evenly, he no longer is interested. Is there anyway around this? It seems like a bug that I can't explain to the owner why this is a good deal for us and he shouldn't unilaterally deny me the right to offer the contract because it's not evenly distributed. |
12-06-2019, 12:27 AM | #2 |
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You might just need to push the initial year up a little bit. For an 8-year deal, anything within about a 10X-12X gap between top and bottom years shouldn't have trouble being approved. You might just need to bump the first year up to the 2-2.5M range and the rest should be fine (might need to double check the total value - if you hit that, I think we trim numbers down so you might need to bump up the last few years back to where it used to be).
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12-07-2019, 11:19 AM | #3 |
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May I ask the reason for this?
If $90 million over 9 years is a good deal for a given player, it's even slightly better for the team if it's $1 million the first year working its way up to $19 million the last year than if it's $10 million every year. I could more understand the player turning it down for being not enough right away than the owner rejecting it on those grounds. That said, I tend not to back-load contracts so I don't find myself low on budget space several years down the road. If I have room in the budget I tend to try to front-load, unless option years are involved, in which case I'll then try to back-load into option years because those may not be paid at all (and if it'd the player with an option or opt-out, backloading gives the player more incentive not to opt out). Outside of throwing more of the expense into option years, though, I try to avoid back-loading personally, and thus have never run across this. But it's hard for me to understand why owners would prefer to pay more up front rather than the reverse. |
12-07-2019, 11:41 AM | #4 |
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