Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2011 19:18:47 GMT -5
Due to the recent activites of a certain team (give you three guesses) we need to come up with a solid rule regarding how to gauge the value of players when being traded during the offseason.
I propose for every posted trade the values of their 2012 salary need to be looked at to weigh the potential effect to caps of both teams involved in the trade. The reason for this is a team "in the know" that the player is going to be in line for a huge raise can try to push said player to another team thereby exposing him to a huge cap hit when the prices inevitable unfold later in the offseason.
I propose the TRC needs to look at every player in the deal and first look at Cots and see if it as an easy one (player salary is determined for 2012). If a player has a player option it will be assumed that is the value the player will get for 2012 (ie, it will be assumed that players option will be picked up). No real other way to guess at that one, if it is a horrible option that will pretty obviously not be picked up well that sucks but just wait to trade the player after the option has officially not been picked up. If the player does not have a 2012 salary determined (arbitration eligible) we will assume a 50% increase in salary (if they make 4 million we will assume 6 million) unless the player is not any good and it is pretty likely they are not in line for a raise. (Example Nelson Cruz currently makes 4, pretty obvious he will get a raise, we would assume 6 million if posted for a trade).
If the player doesn't really fall into any of these categories we will just assume whatever they made in 2011.
I think this is a pretty fair and logical way to go about it, please post here if you don't agree (three guesses who isn't going to like it). This estimating business is fine for looking at your own roster but when you go to trade the player your self-estimation should go out the window and be looked at a little differently. Otherwise I (or any team) could plug 1 million as the estimation for any of my arbitration eliglble players or players that are FAs and put them in a trade at one million although they will obviously make much more. A way to dump expensive players on another team pretty sneakily, I urge the TRC to be very aware of player costs and how much they are likely to change when opening day rolls around.
Again post here if you like or dislike this proposed rule.
-Royals
I propose for every posted trade the values of their 2012 salary need to be looked at to weigh the potential effect to caps of both teams involved in the trade. The reason for this is a team "in the know" that the player is going to be in line for a huge raise can try to push said player to another team thereby exposing him to a huge cap hit when the prices inevitable unfold later in the offseason.
I propose the TRC needs to look at every player in the deal and first look at Cots and see if it as an easy one (player salary is determined for 2012). If a player has a player option it will be assumed that is the value the player will get for 2012 (ie, it will be assumed that players option will be picked up). No real other way to guess at that one, if it is a horrible option that will pretty obviously not be picked up well that sucks but just wait to trade the player after the option has officially not been picked up. If the player does not have a 2012 salary determined (arbitration eligible) we will assume a 50% increase in salary (if they make 4 million we will assume 6 million) unless the player is not any good and it is pretty likely they are not in line for a raise. (Example Nelson Cruz currently makes 4, pretty obvious he will get a raise, we would assume 6 million if posted for a trade).
If the player doesn't really fall into any of these categories we will just assume whatever they made in 2011.
I think this is a pretty fair and logical way to go about it, please post here if you don't agree (three guesses who isn't going to like it). This estimating business is fine for looking at your own roster but when you go to trade the player your self-estimation should go out the window and be looked at a little differently. Otherwise I (or any team) could plug 1 million as the estimation for any of my arbitration eliglble players or players that are FAs and put them in a trade at one million although they will obviously make much more. A way to dump expensive players on another team pretty sneakily, I urge the TRC to be very aware of player costs and how much they are likely to change when opening day rolls around.
Again post here if you like or dislike this proposed rule.
-Royals
