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  On 3/11/2024 at 11:56 PM, stevestojan said:

Can someone explain the downside of this? Like why wouldn’t every team in cap trouble just restructure as signing bonuses? I know it’s a dumb question. But I don’t know the answer. 

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The money saved this year is spread out over the remaining life of the contract (including this year).  The main downside is that it increases the cap hit in future years. 

 

Its possible to keep doing it every year as long as the amounts being pushed into future years are less than the annual salary cap increases. 

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I like what they did here.  Beane is thinking of the future, and maintaining competitiveness throughout the JA era.

 

And that's the right way to go, imo.  The more chances you have at bat, the more likely you are to get a hit.  Going all in for a year or 2 and then digging out of it never really appealed to me as a fan.

 

You could argue that we're kind of doing the latter right now - but this will still be a contending team in the fall.

 

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  On 3/11/2024 at 11:59 PM, Brandon said:

 

The money saved this year is spread out over the remaining life of the contract.  It increases the cap hit in future years. 

 

Its possible to keep doing it every year as long as the amounts being pushed into future years are less than the annual salary cap increases. 

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And what you don’t spend this year can be carried over. It makes no difference. Basically by not taking all of it tells me there’s a self imposed cash limit set by the owner. In other words the owner isn’t a blank check this year. 

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