contract offer on comp players

[GoIrish]

I think you should not be able to offer a contract or at least be the 1st offer on a player that you are comp eligible on. In essence you are defeating the purpose of the system, you already have the highest bid on the player and now you offer a lower per season offer. I could see once someone bids, if you want to go after to sign the player at a bargin but the 1st bid does not seem right to me.

Sean

[Atlbravesfan27]

why? it happens all the time in the majors as well..i dont see a problem...why pay more when you could possibly pay less

[Cdawg]

... I don't have to keep signing Reynolds to his fallback offer? I can offer him 2 years at like 1M????????????????????????????????????

[GoIrish]

Yeah, that was my point. If your fallback offer is lets say 10M, you could sign that player for 3 years at 3.4M a year and because no one wants to pay compensation on that player, you get him at a discounted rate.

[Cdawg]

awwwww..... I had no idea that was possible.

[mike]

Ya I agree with Irish here. You shouldn't beable to do that until the player has a bid form at least one other team.

[dejota]

I vetoed Cin cin on this one, it was the only one I recall. This is an example of the intentions of FCM being obvious but there's no direct rule.

[ezpkns34]

Ya I agree with Irish here. You shouldn't beable to do that until the player has a bid form at least one other team.

Change of heart?

[jps93]

Yeah I got vetoed. I couldn't do it so I don't think anyone is allowed to.