Astros Trade Block:

SP Cole, Garrett, $13m (2021)         
SP Cotton, Jharel, $0.5m (P-2020)            
SP Gausman, Kevin, $12m (2021)
OF Braun, Ryan, $3m (2020)
- Looking to move to a contender. 

Extended:

WR DeVante Parker   
2017: 56
2018: 110
41 or higher - $1.0m

Extend at $1.1M(2021)

WR Seth Roberts   

2017: 80
2018: 70
41 or higher - $1.0m

Extend at $1.0M(2020)

DL Robert Quinn   

2017: 39
2018: 43
30-40 $2.0m

Extend at $2.0M(2021)

DL Markus Golden   

2017: 225
2018: 103
41 or higher - $1.0m

Extend at $1.0M(2020)

K Justin Tucker   

2017: 5
2018: 2
2 - $4.5m

Extend at $5.0M(2022)   

Not Resigned:

Buster Skrine - Not Resigned            
PJ Williams`- Not Resigned
Josh Bellamy - Not Resigned            
Bryce Butler - Not Resigned
Kevin Hogan - Not Resigned      
Danny Shelton - Not Resigned

 

Somewhat skews the value of draft picks, but everyone has their own plan and values assets differently.

Pelicans receive:
Ingram $6,5 (2020)
Prince $3 (2020)
2nd round pick Houston 2019

Houston receive:
Randle $8,9 (2020)


Houston agrees. We lost 2 young players who will be RFA next year and especially Ingram who seems to start making interesting numbers at his 21 years old. Also a 2nd round pick of this year that Brent ask me to include.
For them I take Randle who had a very nice season and I hope that he keeps it going in New York. I take only one year of Randle but the only reason is to fight this year.

Thanks Brent!

Pelicans agree.  In an effort to get more control over the roster, the I decided to move on from Randle.  I'm really high on guys getting away from bad situations and that is what BI is going by leaving the toxicity of Lebron and moving down to NOLA.  I believe he will realize his potential and I won't take a dropoff from Randle to BI.  The other pieces are Lagniape.  Thanks for the negotiations.

The idea of even cap across the board was to eliminate teams having an advantage. When you're paying salary on a player that is still using your cap.

Some players salaries are unmovable without paying on them. Deals already can't be sweetened by including draft picks.

I'm open to all ideas, I'm very partial to allowing cash paid for just one season. The season of the trade only.

Doing this won't eliminate a team from having say 70m paid in one season but then the following season(s) they are on the hook for those contracts likely needing to pay on them themselves in order to move them.  Advantage nullified by the disadvantage of planning beyond the trade year.

The real MLB allows cash exchanges. Eliminating it altogether may not be the way to go but not allowing anything beyond the trade year is easier to keep track of and still keeps in play the strategy of same cap.

I like this option, current year (trade year) only.

I played in a sim basketball league years ago that followed the NBA CBA so salaries had to match, it was interesting.

I'm in an offsite league that doesn't allow money paid.  There are still a lot of trades.  The buyout rules before the trade deadline are more favorable which helps to deal with bad contracts.