I think we've come across a rules issue that we haven't explicitly dealt with before. I drafted Pineda for $9, cut him, re-added him, and traded him to Kate. Can I now subtract $9 from my salary, and add $9 to Kate's? Either way, we're both within the salary limits, so the trade is legal, but I would like to have the extra $9 flexibility for any future trades that might happen.
The way I see it, we have 2 rules that contradict each other here:
1) If you trade a player you drafted, you transfer his salary.
2) If you trade a player you claimed on waivers, your salary is unaffected.
I don't think there's anything explicit in our rules which forces us to choose one way or the other, so we may need a commish ruling or a vote. My preference would be to lean towards the side of allowing us more salary flexibility, but I'm fine either way. Thoughts?
Also, did we ever settle on when we would have our trade deadline?
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No. A cut player is cut and you incurred a cap hit once you cut him.
I agree with Bill (even though it would help him a lot to be able to trade Travis Snider and free some cap room). I think once a player is cut their drafted salary becomes dead weight on your salary cap.
Yeah, I suppose that makes sense. So once you make the decision to cut a player there is no way out of his salary.
I think that's the way it has to be for this year. Nothing says we can't change it for next year, though.
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