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Originally Posted by Goodlad
The original idea was to buy Ramo out of his current contract and have him come over for this season, and I believe Feaster had a deal in place to that effect when Ramo's team changed owners and the new owners nixed the deal. It's unfortunate because it looks like that will end up being a 2nd round pick that we gave away for nothing.
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Another factor is under the old CBA we would have held Ramo's RFA rights for another year since the date used to determine a players age for contract purposes is their age as of June 30th (Ramo turns 27 on July 1st), but the new rule regarding players that are RFAs for 2 years becoming UFAs kind of boned us.
I think Feaster's plan was to try and buy him out but knew if he wasn't able to he had 1 more year after of having Ramo's rights. The new CBA changed that though.