Nola signs with Philly

[Vanimal46]

44 minutes ago, lake_guy said:

And a massive benefit to high payroll teams because they can DFA or trade the player at the back end, eat the money and say I'll have another please.  Lovely....

Bingo. As we heard last year, players care about the total guaranteed money, and the big payroll teams add however many years they can to make it work for accounting/luxury tax purposes. 

[ashbury]

8 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Bingo. As we heard last year, players care about the total guaranteed money, and the big payroll teams add however many years they can to make it work for accounting/luxury tax purposes. 

Ha ha.  I can imagine the consternation of those bigger-time owners if a lawyer who negotiates the roster/salary rules spots this loophole and proposes, "when a player is released, the remaining payments are spread out over the time the player was actually on the active roster, and Luxury Tax computations are redone and underpayments assessed." 

BTW, do you really think someone will pay $120M for the 2 good remaining years of Gray's career, plus a WAR or two across the remainder of the contract?

[Vanimal46]

21 minutes ago, ashbury said:

BTW, do you really think someone will pay $120M for the 2 good remaining years of Gray's career, plus a WAR or two across the remainder of the contract?

I do... Kyle Gibson just got a 1/$12 + option and Lance Lynn just got 1/$10 + option from the Cardinals and they are light years worse than Sonny Gray.