deadhead
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You know your reading comprehension is awful when you can't discern a point that is explicitly stated.
If these were serious overpays, we should all be concerned.
But the overpays were minor, and Fletcher did them strategically, to address serious needs that I'm sure AV had pointed out.
If Miller, who is a 3rd pair guy at 26 (i.e., probably all he'll ever be) garners a 2nd and 5th, so what if he has term.
Would we want to pay him $3.9M for three years to play on our 3rd pair?
So maybe we should have only given two 3rd rd picks for Braun, or a 2nd and 5th, not a huge premium.
It would have been nice to give Hayes 6x6, or 5x7 instead of 7x7. But that extra year when the cap is approaching $100M and he's 33 is unlikely to deep six the franchise. And it means you're not asking Frost or Patrick to have to carry TK or Voracek or JVR.
Niskanen wasn't an overpay, he's >> Gudas.
Hartman, Schlemko, MacDonald were clearing house, like Weise, Weal (we got a 6th rd pick!), Folin et al.