Royacoster wrote:
jdavidbakr wrote:
WarEagle wrote:
You can renegotiate a player's contract in the final year, UNLESS they were only signed to a one-year deal.
This is correct. You can renegotiate any player's contract except in the year that they signed their current contract. So if they sign a 3-year deal, you can't renegotiate in year 1, but you can in years 2 and 3. If they sign a 1-year deal, you won't be able to renegotiate with them at all, because they will always be in the first year of their contract.
So in the last year you can't renegotiate? You have to do it when they have 2 years left?
No, you can renegotiate in any year except the _first_ year of the contract. If you sign a player to a multi-year contract, you _can_ renegotiate in the last year of the contract (and unless they are willing to take a pay cut you usually have no reason to renegotiate any earlier).
I usually sign players to a 2-year deal if they are just for roster depth, because if you sign them to a 1-year deal they will automatically be a free agent the following year. If you sign them to a 2-year deal, you won't be able to renegotiate in the first year, but in year #2 you will.
Does that make more sense?