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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
I think it is more teams wising up.
“Of course it doesn’t make sense,” a league official concurred. “We pay you the minimum for three years and arbitration for three or four years, and then you get paid more in free agency for your decline?”
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I'm not sure how you fix that either. You could set it up so guys are free agents earlier, but will that help? You'll definitely get more free agents out in the market during their prime... but they'll have less established experience. Instead of paying $150 million for a guy with 6-7 years, you're maybe paying it to a guy with 2-3 years experience. Not sure a lot of teams would be wild about that either. And there are guys like Moose and Hosmer who didn't really become good players until their 4th or 5th year.