Players with team or mutual options Topic

WiredTiger
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Players with team or mutual options shouldn't count full against future season salary restrictions. Only their buyout price should count against the restriction.
11/4/2010 4:36 PM (edited)
tecwrg
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I assume you meant team or mutual options, because those are the only ones that you have the option of declining.  Player options should continue to count towards future payroll under the assumption that the player will exercise the option.
11/4/2010 2:27 PM
WiredTiger
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I did mean team or mutual options. Edited to reflect that.
11/4/2010 4:36 PM
MikeT23
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You can't decline an option until the option year.   Why would only the buyout count?   You're assuming decline, the program assumes accept.   Surely you see how an enterprising young man could offer tons of option years and abuse the system.
11/4/2010 4:46 PM
WiredTiger
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I'm not sure I do see how it could be abused. There's always a penalty for declining the option. The restrictions on salary in future seasons are mainly in place to prevent a current owner from screwing a future owner. The buyout is maximum amount that an owner would be required to pay a player in that season.
11/5/2010 12:43 PM
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So....you don't see how signing a handful of older players and offering them a big option year then bailing on the team when it's time to pay the piper can be abused?

The way FA works is the highest total wins the contract.  Slam an extra year, at a big price, on every contract and you win the big FA.
11/5/2010 2:41 PM
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No. Don't like it.
Ripe for abuse, + the option year is worth full value until you say it's not worth full value, which is not until the option year.

Gaming the system, in my opinion.
11/8/2010 10:09 AM
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