(08-23-2023, 10:27 AM)surfpuckmd Wrote: If they can eat the current salary this year then stretch waive him next season, this become a less terrible decision. Still bad but less terrible.
They can do it like that if they want to. In fact, if they don't SW this year's salary, they can roll into next summer with the ability to choose to do that final year either way. But the reporting is telling us it will all be SW'ed now.
Technically, JM doesn't have a 3rd year yet -- its only a PO. In past eras, a waiver would only pay the PO on a waiver if the PO had already been exercised prior to the waiver. Now the contract is allowed to specify. A smart FO would have given him a contract in which he would not receive his salary for the option year if he is waived prior to exercising his option. This was a really bad exercise in negotiating.
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