07-14-2023, 09:51 PM
(07-14-2023, 08:13 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Another way of answering Mvossman’s earlier question. We can trade THJ’s $17.9mm for someone(s) making $21.5mm and still be a hair under the tax. Add McGee to the outgoing and the $3.6mm trade spread gets you to taking back someone(s) making $27mm, but you have to get yourself to 14 players and account for that in the math if the trade only returns one guy. That $3.6mm number appears to be the number that matters more than the remaining MLE.
It remains to be seen if the 3.6M trade spread is sacred or not. Curry has been signed, but the details have not been leaked yet.
The cheapest way to do his salary this year (as agreed) would use the BAE number of 4,516,000. Let's see how this unfolds. They could pay him more this year, and less next, perhaps.