Buy or sell, sink or swim: AA's deadline dilemma

[Parataxis]

Also, if I understand the new comp rules, trading EE now will get us less than in the past because there is no comp pick for losing a player to free agency if he wasn't on your roster all season. If that's the case, the value of rentals is decreased, and we are better off keeping EE and going for the comp pick ourselves. And once you don't sell at mid-season, why wouldn't you go all-in?

I'm not sure if we'd get a comp pick for EE (or KJ) regardless. IIRC, to get a compensory pick, you need to offer your FA a salary equal to the average of the top 125 salaries in the league. That's about 12 mil a year - are they worth that?

Not Kelly Johnson, but I'd argue that for the past 18 months, EE would fetch that kind of money on the open market. My question is how many years do you have to offer?

Don't quote me on this, but I'm fairly sure it just has to be a one year deal offered.

I wonder what the chances are that E5 would take that offer? It's a hell of a pay upgrade to what he's making now.

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Don't quote me on this, but I'm fairly sure it just has to be a one year deal offered.

I wonder what the chances are that E5 would take that offer? It's a hell of a pay upgrade to what he's making now.

If it's only one year, it's not much of a risk to the team to offer it.

[nonc]

how about treading water? we can get a band-aid starter without giving away any prospects. any buying or selling we do is likely to be minor, which will have next to no impact on next year anyway, so we may as well try and keep our sh*t together and gun for WC #2.