Early Waiver Payoffs

[Marlins GM (Andrew)]

Whether to allow for the early payoff of waiver penalties. Today, penalties are spread annually across the full length of a players contract, this would allow for multi-year payoffs to occur in one year.

A decision deadline would be mandatory, probably during the offseason to disallow the use of remaining cap at the end of the season to pay off future liabilities.

[PhilliesGM]

Anytime of the year, either spread at the owners discretion (no less than 50% AAV in any given year) per year, or one lump sum (the sum of each year's 50% AAV added into a total for one year). Waiting til the end of the year makes no sense. Why not free up money for the playoff run? Lumping future salaries into one year allows owners to rebuild the next year and helps new GMs sidled w crappy contracts they didnt sign.

[Pirates GM (Alex)]

I'm not a fan of the early waiver payoffs if we're going to have such a high contract multiplier in Free Agency. You're going to create scenarios where competitive teams (like we had this past year, Atlanta especially) will sign players to long term deals for very cheap and then will be able to pay off all their debts in a one year rebuild after reaping the rewards for 2-3 seasons. The early waiver payoff is fine if we lower the multiplier.

[Marlins GM (Andrew)]

Locked down - We will have early payoff of waiver penalties, allowed to be spread at owners discretion as long as no less than 50% of AAV is in any given year.