Why would they sit out? Because as an employee your only leverage is your labour. Withhold that as long as you can until showing up last minute to accrue your year. Less miles on the tires setting you up for FA or doing it again the next year for even more money. Since the team has shown they won’t pay what benefit is there to the player to come to work early and often, play an entire year, and get all that wear and tear? If the position doesn’t matter as much as everyone says then it won’t impact team W/L records that much anyway.
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