Quote:
Originally Posted by Macindoc
Can you walk away if the arbitrator awards what you think is too much? Isn't the contract binding on both parties, causing teams to not make qualifying offers to players who they are worried will be awarded too much in arbitration?
|
You can only walk away if it's over a certain threshold (~3.5 million I think).
The team can also pick the term to be 1 or 2 years at the awarded arbitration amount. If the team or player want to sign long term then they have to do it outside of arbitration.