Monday, March 10, 2014
Contract for pre-arb stars
?A young star, in his first three years, will make something like 7MM$. Whether the team pays him in three equal installments, or gives him a 5.5MM$ up-front signing bonus, then gives him three equal installments of 500K each makes no difference.
I agree that the pre-free agent players are being shortchanged, but the free agents are overpaid. And who stands to make the most as free agents? The superstar players.
The entire salary structure is of most benefit to the star players, whether it's as a signing bonus before playing one game, or eventually getting to free agency.
The only players who should be complaining are those drafted late (low signing bonus) and those not going to be even average players when they hit free agency (underpaid through their pre-free agency years).
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