Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

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I’m a little late to the party.  Interesting bit of work.  I thought they might send out some salary as a way of preserving the TPE, but never imagined something like this.

You raise an interesting point.  Biberovic has to come out of some exception as he makes more than the minimum.  Is that something that gets designated when he is signed?  Can it be changed later if they want to do something different.  They seemingly spent a second to do the Middleton MLE (I think you rightly point out that they probably nailed the needed amount of money here).  It would seem maintaining the TPE might be the priority over maintaining the MLE, but I could certainly be wrong.

Yes Tarik has to come out of an exception, but IT CAN'T BE A TPE. Yes it has to be designated when submitted. 

How does it all fit together? I dunno. Not enough hard info. Re Tarik, we don't know his contract for sure, because the numbers were so oddly reported. The precise answer might change what's doable. And there's a 2nd Round Exception which may or may not be big enough to somehow fit his deal.

If I'm following the numbers correctly, I see 2 possible outcomes:
1 They could have Sasser using part of the TPE, with Tarik coming out of the BAE. That would leave the 15M MLE plus about 15M of the TPE. 
2 Or Sasser uses the BAE, and Tarik is part of the MLE. That leaves the entire 20M TPE plus maybe 10M of the MLE.