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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
subtract 2.25M of Brouwer, add 3.25M of Smith with an additional year past Brouwer's, and hope that the supposed wheels stay on a guy who turns 30 in a few months?
it would be more efficient to just buy out Brouwer and promote a young guy from our system that actually stands a chance of getting better, or at the very least not falling off a cliff the way Brouwer did when he came on board at the same age?
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See I thought about that, but buying him out means $1.5m in dead cap space until 2022. the additional million over 2 years isn't ideal, but I'd rather take a chance on an improvement on Troy Brouwer any day. It's better than the alternative of having BOTH players and their combined cap hits on the same roster (assuming we're actually interested in Smith).