Post by Kansas City Royals on Mar 25, 2022 21:33:43 GMT
I know that in real life teams insure their contracts. I was wondering if it might be worth it to do something similar here. I don't actually have a dog in this fight, so this is just me spitballing an idea.
The idea: if a player goes on the 60 day IL, you can get a 1 year boost in cap of half that player's salary. If that injury will cost time in 2 different seasons, you can choose which year you get the cap for. I know that we clear the IL every offseason, and I agree with that. But there are a lot of guys who you never cut, even if they are injured. I don't know who owns Acuna here, but it's not their fault he tore his ACL last year. It might have been nice if they'd had half his salary in their FA budget for this season. Obviously, with the lockout, there are a lot of strange things this year, but it might have helped whoever owns Tatis in a regular year. Or if they had a trade target it mind, it might still help.
I think we'd have to put a few caveats on it, such as you don't keep getting money if a guy keeps getting IL'ed with the same type of injury. For example, if someone blows out a shoulder coming back from TJ, you're out of luck. That's still an arm injury. But if (God forbid) Soroka needed TJ coming back from an Achilles injury, if he was on a decent deal, you could file a second claim there. Also, as I said earlier, only 60 day IL (or a late season injury that will be a 60 day IL the following year) injuries should count. And finally, I don't think every player should be eligible - there's not a ton of point in getting 25 cents on a claim for a guy on league minimum. That's just creating tedium for the mods. So I'd say only arb guys, big contracts and free agents signings of at least 2m (or whatever someone smarter than me proposes) might be a fair idea.
The idea: if a player goes on the 60 day IL, you can get a 1 year boost in cap of half that player's salary. If that injury will cost time in 2 different seasons, you can choose which year you get the cap for. I know that we clear the IL every offseason, and I agree with that. But there are a lot of guys who you never cut, even if they are injured. I don't know who owns Acuna here, but it's not their fault he tore his ACL last year. It might have been nice if they'd had half his salary in their FA budget for this season. Obviously, with the lockout, there are a lot of strange things this year, but it might have helped whoever owns Tatis in a regular year. Or if they had a trade target it mind, it might still help.
I think we'd have to put a few caveats on it, such as you don't keep getting money if a guy keeps getting IL'ed with the same type of injury. For example, if someone blows out a shoulder coming back from TJ, you're out of luck. That's still an arm injury. But if (God forbid) Soroka needed TJ coming back from an Achilles injury, if he was on a decent deal, you could file a second claim there. Also, as I said earlier, only 60 day IL (or a late season injury that will be a 60 day IL the following year) injuries should count. And finally, I don't think every player should be eligible - there's not a ton of point in getting 25 cents on a claim for a guy on league minimum. That's just creating tedium for the mods. So I'd say only arb guys, big contracts and free agents signings of at least 2m (or whatever someone smarter than me proposes) might be a fair idea.