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Originally Posted by StyxNCa
I tend to work the opposite way. The more $ I put into something the more use it will get. When it comes to pitchers, the less they get used the less impact they have on your team so why not get the most benefit from them?
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But if you're paying that pitcher $10 million a year for four years, and you use him so much in that first year you burn his arm out, you're still on the hook for the rest of the contract even though he won't be playing those three other years. Whereas fifty years ago contracts were almost always on a year-by-year basis, so you could run the pitcher out there like crazy since there was little downside financially to doing so. It'd only cost you thirty days' pay to get out of the contract during the season, and nothing at all in the off-season.