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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Color me ... not convinced they won't trade him. They very well could have an agreement in place to trade him to a team as soon as legally possible.
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If I were betting I'd say that they started working with the agent, got the impression that he was EXTREMELY confident that the market to pay him $23+ million was very robust and figured "well hell, we might as well tag him anyway as the AAV isn't going to be that bad in relation to his market number and if the market is as robust as the agent says, perhaps we'll get an offer for a 2nd rounder..."