Expected 2021 Cap Cost for Draft Picks - $9.4 mill

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(03-10-2021, 06:28 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes, some people make those type of comments.

But are you going to accuse every person who talks about how much a free agent ill cost without subtracting the cost of the player he replaces of "spreading misinformation" or "crying poor"?

Seems like a kind of silly overreaction to me.  I'd say 90% of the times someone mentions the price of a free agent they don't include the savings of the guy replaced on the roster.  Instead they just talk about how much a guy is going to get paid.

And how often of that 90% is the guy he replacing going to cover 1/2 of the total amount he'll cost? Because that's the case with these draft class cost talks.

It's not like we're talking about replacing a minimum guy with a $14m guy, we're talking about roughly 1/2 of the cost of the rookies will be offset. It's a significant difference. Case and point the thread maker mentioned reserving $10m for the rookies.