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Originally Posted by dkgo
you posted on a discussion board, sorry that you found discussion instead of just a bunch of people agreeing
here is the rational reason for this happening in the game:
the player is a human and humans are not always rational! people refuse to negotiate all the time in actual life even when there is technically no downside to hearing an offer out. the guy is mad and doesn't want to talk
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If you can find cases of this, I'd be happy to hear or see them. There are many, many cases of players under control deciding to go to arbitration for financial reasons, but I doubt you can find even a handful that decided to go to arbitration for other reasons. I'm open to having my mind changed here, though. I'm sure there must have been one or two that happened throughout the history of baseball arbitration. But, seriously, a guy refusing to even discuss negotiating a contract that the club owns rights to is just silly. They have agents for reasons.
If this happened once a blue moon in OOTP, that would be okay, I guess. But it's a moderately normal thing in the game. So, no, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Players who are being offered arbitration rather than go free agent are a different thing, of course. They can and should turn down arbitration for many reasons.