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Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch
Four-year qualifying contract: Another type of veteran salary benefit, it can be offered to a player with at least four credited seasons whose contract with a team has expired after being on said team for four or more consecutive, uninterrupted league years prior to his contract expiring. Such a player must have been on the team's 90-man active/inactive list for said seasons (and every regular-season and postseason game). Teams can sign a maximum of two eligible players to this type of salary benefit.
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Correct but you get an aggregate benefit that can be split among two players or allocated to a single player. Wharton's deal was large enough (usually needs to be about $3.2 million) to use the whole aggregate amount.
So they would have used the max benefit on Wharton's deal.
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