If look up you will see my point above your head. Conversations don’t actually go anything like we were discussing, but the pressures of the job from all sides are felt.
And while we lose leverage, if a team WANTS Miller, they can’t risk him going to another team or losing him in FA.
In this comparison, sure they can risk losing him to another team, because they have several other options. Sign a multitude of other players, trade for a multitude of other players, do nothing, make a trade with Vancouver.
Vancouver, does not. It was re-sign, trade, let him walk. That is more pressure. That is the definition of having less leverage, and my overall point.