rickrolled wrote:I think were going to pay the lux-tax this year, unfortunately no way around it without giving up one rotation player.
Even in the unlikely event we can just dump both Yabu and Nader instead of dump Yabu and waive/stretch Nader we're still slightly above the lux-tax. And with nothing to offer Bird other than a QO, but the cap hit would still be ~1.4 million.
Then if we were to use the MLE we'd surely be over anyway. Just accept that we're going to be taxpayers this year, so better keep Morris' 5.4 million until the deadline, iinm we don't become taxpayers by the start of the year but the end of it right?
Would be dumb to avoid paying the lux-tax if it ended up costing a championship. But surely we must dump Yabu/Nader in any case.
Plus, when the details on the contract is official it could be ~11.1 million in year 1 if his bodyfat is higher, is that When he signed it that they do a weigh-in?
We may very well be tax payers this year. That was always a possibility. Perhaps even a likelihood.
But it's not good sense to be a taxpayer by less than the value of a minimum contract. In that case, you're essentially starting the repeater clock for your 14th or 15th man. That's hard to justify. If you're going to be a taxpayer, make sure you're a ways into the tax. Otherwise, don't.
In other words, if we're buyers at the deadline, and go out and add another useful player and some salary, great. But, if we do not find anyone worth buying, it is just common sense to then elect to duck the tax and push off the clock. So you want to give yourself easy outs for doing that.
It seems we've let some of those easy outs slip away. There must be an angle.
