TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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Assuming we sign one year vet mins to the open roster spots after the trade, then can't you sign free agents into cap first, and then sign vet mins after you used up the cap?  By my calculations if we dump Green and Frank and sign Wood/Maxi to roughly 27 mil in extensions, then we should have roughly 15 mil in space.

My numbers above had assumed Green option exercised, but Franky is let go. (Keeping FN rights will cost an extra ~1M over just an empty cap slot, each of which will be about 1.1M. That decision wouldn't need to happen until the season is over and his future desirability is further assessed.)

If I pencil in 27M combined for Wood/Kleber, adjust roster charges for empty slots (4) (now w/o Green or Franky), and no signing rights on anyone: now about $9M. (If the option was exercised on Green, that number was about $5M. If rights are kept for FN too, now it's $4M cap room).

But after assuming Wood/Kleber, all of those other distinctions are academic since it's all less than the big MLE. You would work overcap instead. Instead of only 9M cap room to spend, you jump up to get the 11.3M big MLE and the 6.5M BAE.