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Originally Posted by Tinordi
To the people losing their minds for not trading Cammalleri would you have been happier if Flash was right and there was really very limited interest in Cammalleri? How about Cammalleri for a 2014 3rd and a 2015 4th? Or Cammalleri for what Hemsky was traded for? Would you have honestly been happy with that?
My guess is that those were the kind of offers on the table.
Further to my other post about value. Burke basically always gets good value in trades. How does he do that? Who knows, no one here has negotiated a trade with him. But it might be that Burke's honest about his threshold and that he doesn't ever break when he's lowballed or doesn't have alot of leverage in a trade discussion. So if all Burke is getting is lowballs or offers below what his stated minimum is what is he to do?
Does he break? That would get you a couple 3rd or 4th rounders. But would the value of those picks be enough for the reputational impact it would have and then on his future trade negotiations?
Burke could have thought "if I buckle or break now on cammalleri then that means that in the future some GM might think I'll buckle or break with an even more important deal on the table. Frankly getting a 4th rounder is less valuable to me than it impacting my future negotiations for potentially more important trades to the franchise."
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I do think this is part of it. Burke manages to the long term, what he misses out in value today on Cammy (although I don't think this saga is done) he likely feels like he will make up in future trades because people know he will risk losing an asset for nothing if he doesn't like the deal.