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Originally Posted by jd1020
You just said no one is signing people to front loaded contracts and I bring up the one player you can even compare to the situation Pujols is in right now and you completely ignore it.
Thanks for playing.
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I'm not ignoring it at all, in fact I directly addressed it.
Those contracts were as a result of the player having leverage over the team and the team refusing to call the player's bluff. In exchange for a reduced AAV, the team front-loaded the deal.
This isn't hard to understand. You only frontload the deal if you're paying a significantly reduced overall $$ figure. Now if the Marlins were offering 10 years and $250 but he Cardinals only want to go 10 years/$210, then they'd have to front-load the contract to increase it's real-time value.
But again, that's manipulating the overall value of the contract to deal with market pressures.
It has nothing to do with what you're discussing.
But keep on covering yourself with glory here, chief. You're doing a bangup job of making yourself look like an idiot.