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Post by rushmore (LAA) on Mar 4, 2020 9:56:14 GMT -6
If we lose 2 Re-sign tags I would leave the league. IMO the point is to build your team for depth through other means other than Free Agency including Draft and trades. By taking away 2 Re-sign tags you virtually turn this league much closer to a redraft league where there are more Free Agents every year and more teams with holes to fill. This would create more bidding wars IMO. If you plan and build properly you will never have to shell out 24% of your cap for one player. I do agree, however, that the resign Max Salary should prob be updated each off-season. Maybe to adjust for the max positional contracts in the league. More Free agents = Cheaper free agents Also, if the point of the league is to build your team for depth other than free agency, making your team less able to retain players... FORCES teams to find players through trades or draft picks instead of just paying players.... ? If you like the idea of just increasing the resign max but keep 4 resigns, then I would be for that.
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Post by Mariners GM (Tyler) on Mar 4, 2020 10:30:44 GMT -6
I disagree that putting more players out to the wolves makes depth matter more. Then a lot of teams would trade away all their prospects to try to "win-now", wait for FA, spend an exorbitant amount of money and hope to compete. That would make this much less fun to me. I'm totally fine that people are willing to spend that much money on one guy and we need people like that in the league to keep other guys cheap. I just would rather spread my wealth around as much as possible. Those are the differences in managing the CAP that are interesting.
As far as resigns being cheap personally I wish we went back to doing it the old way even though I get that this way is more efficient. But it should 100% always be cheaper for a team to resign a guy than it would be to acquire him as a Free Agent. So Free agent contracts should and will always be more expensive for the top tier guys that make it there.
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Post by Mariners GM (Tyler) on Mar 1, 2021 14:11:31 GMT -6
I can't help but wonder if people realize that Randal Grichuk is a 4th OFer at this point for this year. And not only that he really has been fairly average throughout his career. Like I love him as much as the next guy but even when he does have PT he doesn't stay healthy and has only been an above average player (by OPS+) in 3 of his seven seasons. Sure I guess technically the 102 in 2016 counts but that's essentially average. All of this coming with Career highs of 31 HRs (never above 25 anywhere else) and 80 RBI (with 68 and under every other season). These are some pretty aggressive bids for someone who may not even play more than a short side platoon.
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