(07-17-2022, 09:33 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: But, on an after tax basis, pushing some of Powell’s salary to 23/24 is pretty valuable.
I'm not highly enamored with Thybulle -- figuring he's a rental and not at all convinced he's playoff useful because of his lack of offensive skill -- but would take him for free on a dollar-for-dollar swap. I don't think he would be a keeper, however, because of skill set and anticipated future cost. That's just my basic reaction, and yours is clearly different.
But on the economics of it, I don't consider pushing Powell's salary back a year as a plus. If that was their vision, they have easy ways to push salary into future years, by doing a s-w on Powell, or maybe Bertans.
I do think they will continue to be taxpayers. That's one reason I wouldn't see it as a plus.
But imo delaying the cap hit also would get in the way of roster building options.
They still need 2 players. Probably need to turn THJ-Powell-Bertans into those 2, eventually, and preferably by end of season. If they can do that and add those 2 to the existing 6 man core, that should give them a solid foundation to work from each season.
A different route to the same thing would be to get 1 of those guys somehow this season by trade, while getting out from under either THJ or Bertans, and then shoot to end up with full MLE room to get the other in 2023 summer. In that scenario, a $5.5M bump in payroll (Korkmaz) probably becomes the diff between tx-MLE and full MLE, and offers a much lesser set of possibilities.