GDT: 2024 Free Agency - July 1st - 12 P.M.

[OmNomNom]

SUMMER OF FITZ?

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807779610928591029

I guess I'd rather 6 x $5.5 than 5 x $6.125 (to save some $$), but oh well

 

[Devils Trap]

5.5 is fantastic work

 

[OmNomNom]

i love me some aav team players

 

[Blender]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807779147693039662

 

[HoliksGhost]

anyone else getting super anxious that they haven't announced Pesce yet?
this is a joke i know FA hasn't opened yet

Noon

 

[Nocashstyle]

You know what? I can live with that.

 

[Devs3cups]

That’s a fine deal for a very solid D player.

 

[OmNomNom]

lol what the, it's already confirmed if JFresh posted this?

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807780321653317701

 

[Better Call Sal]

Very happy with Pesce at $5.5 mil per.

 

[Nocashstyle]

It’s great that the Devils and Pesce could work out a deal without discussing anything at all whatsoever before noon today.

 

[Hisch13r]

You know what? I can live with that.

I won’t ever like it but whether I hate it or not depends on the Roy deal.

 

[Saugus]

$5.5M is a good cap hit, I don't love the term but that's how it goes in UFA.

Glad to see we are finally a destination for prime UFAs. Shows that players around the league know that we're close to perennial contention.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Money isn’t real.

Sploosh on everything, Fitz.

 

[ndkjr70]

sometimes I look at these contracts and I'm like "what's the difference between 6.0 and 6.125" and then i realize that .125 is enough to feed and raise a family of 4 in a small town and then I get really sad about the horrors of late stage capitalism and then I start drinking and my boss yells at me but it's his fault i'm sad because my bonus was only .010 when I was expecting .0175 so now I can't afford my kid's .0004 daycare because I lost .002 on the Yankees moneyline on saturday.

 

[AfroThunder396]

I'd rather 5 years @ 6.1 than 6 years @ 5.5, but this will give us a bit more wiggle room in the short term.

If the cap rises the way we all think it's going to rise then that 6th year should be a huge issue.

 

[EnglishDevil]

Pesce is worth that easily, very good deal.

 

[Japam]

Devils pissing on the cap, pissing on the 12pm free agency start. Fitz plays by his own rules.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

5.5 ain’t bad at all. Will be even less bad when there are multiple huge jumps in cap, even if he declines.

 

[Hisch13r]

I'd rather 5 years @ 6.1 than 6 years @ 5.5, but this will give us a bit more wiggle room in the short term.

If the cap rises the way we all think it's going to rise then that 6th year should be a huge issue.

I’d take the lower hit now (depending on trade protections). We’re going to be really tight up against the cap this year and we need a lot of depth help. Every dollar matters. As long as the protections aren’t crazy you could dump him at the end of the deal.

 

[Davegarri]

Gladly take pesce for that. Back end years of the deal may not be great but you could argue that for every UFA signing.

Fitz knocked it out of the park here

 

[MadDevil]

$5.5M is a good cap hit, I don't love the term but that's how it goes in UFA.

Glad to see we are finally a destination for prime UFAs. Shows that players around the league know that we're close to perennial contention.

It's the typical "front half should be good, back half is questionable/bad" type deal most free agents around his age get.

 

[Zacha37]

And Dillon now WOW Fitz isn’t playing around

 

[AfroThunder396]

I’d take the lower hit now (depending on trade protections). We’re going to be really tight up against the cap this year and we need a lot of depth help. Every dollar matters. As long as the protections aren’t crazy you could dump him at the end of the deal.

Right, 5 years with higher AAV is probably a "better" deal on paper, but for where we are as a franchise this makes more sense.

 

[OmNomNom]

It's the typical "front half should be good, back half is questionable/bad" type deal most free agents around his age get.

the mullet contract, as they say





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