WAS/CIN trade - Vetoed

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Reds trades

Danny Santana - 14.8 / 9 / 9
Pick 1.19
Pick 4.12

Washington trades

Pick 2.02
Pick 3.06

Another case of using a bit of my cap space to move on up in the draft - happy enough to swap a 3rd for a 4th to move up into the first in a strong draft field.

[SactoSolon]

CIN confirms. Willing to move out of the first round next year in order to clear cap room and a roster spot this year. Thanks Garreth for the easy talks!

[Ace]

Commissioner veto.

That's 21.2m in dead money for less than a 10 spot trade up to 1.19 effectively.

I'll leave the deal here so people can see; but this won't be happening so no need to vote.

I understand that WAS believe they have nothing better to do with their cap but that's not the point. If money isn't treated like a real asset in trades then why are we going to the trouble of using salaries?

By mandating a better return; rebuilding teams get better assets and free agency prices come down as teams exercise more caution. I understand that it hurts to give up decent assets in a cap dump, but that's exactly the point; you should feel a bit of pain because there's significant benefit to opening up that amount of room.

I think 1.19 by itself is light but can buy the supposed strong draft argument.

Feel free to re-work this accordingly.

ps. It should also be obvious that setting a low price for taking on bad contracts undercuts all the other teams with cap room and thus has a cascading effect.