$5.5 mil

Cardinals release Steven Cruz, RP, KC p-n/a

PC

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=myers-000tob

Ottawa extends the following player:

Yegor Chinakov: 23-24 points = 132 *25,000 = $3.3 mil * 70% = 5 yrs @ $2,310,000


Ottawa will not resign the following players with expiring contracts (dropped on fantrax):

Filip Chytil
Logan Stanley

I would say trading picks for extra cap room could hurt some struggling teams who might try it.

My thought was with the increased cap we are getting each season teams at the top could go without the benefit of being subsidized. If not for this season, at least next season. I can see that is not favorable to the top teams.

I thought then maybe extra money could be given to teams that didn't participate in the ponzi scheme or who found themselves on the losing end of it, but that too appears unfavorable to league management without teams having to pay for the privilege.

So I would say just leave it alone and we can see how competitive it might be a year from now. I don't want to see any bad teams make themselves worse by trading picks to sign FA that won't help them or by taking on bad contracts from the contenders to bail them out with increased cap.

I formally withdraw my ideas and hope that we don't trade picks for minimal cap space. I do appreciate that you have eliminated future cash exchanges, so thank you for that.