Do we care about anyone on this list?
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/12/14/list-players-eligible-2017-mls-re-entry-draft-stage-1
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/12/14/list-players-eligible-2017-mls-re-entry-draft-stage-1
Do we care about anyone on this list?
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/12/14/list-players-eligible-2017-mls-re-entry-draft-stage-1
He’s too old (and poor) to stay on an MLS roster even at a low wage given the new and increased budget mechanisms.still wish we kept mikey just for depth
He’s too old (and poor) to stay on an MLS roster even at a low wage given the new and increased budget mechanisms.
It’s all about filling those non-cap-applicable slots with youth, IMO.
Barbell strategy seems to be the order of the day (decade) for MLS. I’m curious to see how it works in sports. I predict success, as it’s pretty clearly sound in other fields.
To answer the original question - there are several guys I’d take for $200-300k per. But I don’t know if we could get them for that.
There is some decent quality in there, amongst the dregs. I, possibly irrationally, have an affinity for Giles Barnes. But I think he’s making closer to $1M than $200. Too lazy to verify.
If Laba were cheap enough and reliably healthy, he’d be a decent depth option as a dmid.
To have a valid opinion on any of these options just requires more knowledge than I am capable of possessing and/or more research than I am willing to do.
Dilly dilly.
Hot take: Under the new TAM rules, you're better off having a guy making $600k than $300k for Cap purposes.
Kind of agree. He'd be one hell of a super sub and could give you 5-10 really strong 90s per year. But yeah, $ makes it unlikely.If the salary was whatever you think is an appropriate number (which I don't think would happen) ... Jermaine Jones adds quality depth even at his age.
But isn't it more likely that you spend that 500k on a new guy and enjoy the cap space to keep that non-TAM player appropriately paid?Yep.
The more I think about the new TAM rules, the more I realize they create a perverse incentive to pay a guy over $500K just for the cap relief.
I don't know, frankly. But why not give someone else a shot. It's not like anyone wants to be relying on anything out of a Lopez type anyway.perhaps...but who is young out there that will take that spot? only a draft pick i guess.....i dont see anyone else from academy getting signed
But isn't it more likely that you spend that 500k on a new guy and enjoy the cap space to keep that non-TAM player appropriately paid?
To me, looking at it the way you are really only applies in individual cases. I should hope our FO and others are a little beyond that first-level analysis.
A reminder. $1.2 Million of TAM is paid for by the league. It's free money for these teams. The teams have to pay for their discretionary TAM.
At least that's how I understand how the TAM rules work.
This is correct. It threatens to extend differences between clubs with owners that spend and the ones with owners that do not. In our case, we will all be disappointed if the Pigeons do not spend all of it. I expect most teams will do so.