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Do we reach a point where we're too worried about signing a guy? I ask this because when you look at a guy like McDuffie, you have 1 year of cheap, the following year is his 5th-year option, which is cheap all things considered (13.6m), and then you have another year you can play him on the franchise tag for, let's call it probably around $21-22m (it's 20.2 right now), and then you could even exercise that tag again the following year. At no point in the next 4 years would you ever need to approach anything near $30m if you wanted to play hardball with the guy. I think you can, at minimum, be fake in negotiations and use the tag the first year without pissing the guy off. You'd have him locked through his age 27 year. That next year though, tag and cut bait when he's 28.
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