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Fantraxed 2-9-17
tradesCI Garcia, Adonis, $5m (2018) CI Plouffe, Trevor, $11m (2019) MI Urena, Richard, $0.5m (P-n/a)OF Dewees, Donnie, $0.5m (P-n/a) OF Wilson, DJ, $0.5m (P-n/a) tradesCI Moreland, Mitch, $4m (2017) RP Robertson, David, $2.5m (2017)I do this trade to gain a few prospects I'm high on. In the middle of my rebuild, I feel like this trade allows me to utilize my cap space to get the necessary prospects to fit my rebuild. I've been trying to get rid of Moreland and Robertson, and instead of letting them walk next season, I turn them into good specs. I obviously take on some cap, but I have plenty of future cap space and it's within my plan fit guys like Garcia and Plouffe on my squad, which I believe will improve my current team as well.
I certainly don't want this to disintegrate into a "post war", but please understand this:If I didn't have some sense of "trust" that you knew what you were doing, I would have vetoed the trade.
There's nothing in this trade that is illegal. It's a fair trade that helps both teams equally. And really it makes my team better this year, considering both players I am adding will start on their respective teams. What else am I supposed to do? Throw 75m at a 31 year old Longoria? or sit with all my cap space as my team rots at the bottom of the league? I have a plan, and this fits into my plan, and as a small market team, I need to use all of my money effectively. It would be no different than if I was bidding on Urena in FA and giving him a signing bonus, but unfortunately there are no top 100 prospects in FA.This trade can't be vetoed because people think it should be illegal. Either it is, or it isn't and it's clearly not detrimental to the league. If we make a rule after this, so be it, but as of now there isn't such rule.