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Originally Posted by O.city
So if you extend him after this year, then he has a career ending injury, you're better off?
If you are that afraid of a guy having a career ending injury, you probably don't want to extend him.
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You generally don't extend a guy with two years left on his contract. You extend him with one year (or less) left to keep him from getting to free agency. If free agency didn't exist, you'd wait all the way until the contract expired to negotiate a new one. The only reason to extend a contract before you need to, is if you think you can get the guy cheap now but that he's going to blow up and demand a huge contract later.
If you deviate from that norm and something goes wrong, you've made a bonehead blunder. If you don't deviate from that norm but something goes wrong, it's just bad luck.