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Originally Posted by Saul Good
The numbers were pretty amazing. There's almost no point in ever signing a player over 30 to a big (or even medium) sized deal of more than a year or two.
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This is interesting. I see two things happening in the future:
1) Older players become a new "moneyball" lens, as teams stop spending on them, to the point of them becoming an undervalued asset.
2) MLB does something with the CBA to change the arbitration rules and get more money to players in their prime years, when still under team control. If teams stop spending on vets, the players will push for either shorter periods of team control, or more lucrative arbitration awards, so that guys who get to arbitration late do not get punished when reaching FA at 30+ and having no one willing to pay them.