Gustoon wrote:
Some one needs to clarify this as well, If a player's contract runs down to the final year, you can't renegotiate and will have to wait for them to go FA.
You _can_ renegotiate in the final year of the contract as long as it was a multi-year contract. That is in fact what the warning you receive is about - you have players who are in the last year of their contract and will be free agents once the season ends if they are not signed to a longer deal.
My standard MO is to always offer 2-year contracts unless I'm not going to lose any sleep over the player leaving at the end of the season (because he's there for depth and would be easily replaced by the existing free agent stock). Then anyone in the final year of their contract, I try to extend to minimum bonus 2-year contracts if they're asking for a 1-year deal (near the end of the season), that way they are at least on my roster next year but don't cost too much if I decide to cut them.