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Originally Posted by Flamesfan05
It’s a fair question. They could have discussed with the players the likelihood of extension before making the deal.
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The uncertainty around Huberdeau and Weegar is why Florida made this deal. If that uncertainty was reduced, Florida's offer most likely would've been smaller.
Tree's best chance at a home run was to make the trade at maximum uncertainty, then work to reduce the uncertainty after. And it's not really even that high-risk of a strategy, because if you want you can just flip the players as rentals.
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Originally Posted by devo22
unlikely, but after everything that happened these last couple of weeks it'd be such a boss move if they announced contract extensions for both at the presser today.
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Yep, but you don't really want your reputation amongst GMs to be the guy who always wins trades. If I'm in Tree's position, I might even stall an extension a bit just to let Zito save a bit of face. (The comment on how Florida's deal was "by far the best" is also something I might've avoided.) You want the league's other GMs to see the trade and the signing as separate events.