I think their better play is to keep Manson for his next 2 years at 4.5,sign a guy like dillion and see what they have in Behrens and hope that Gulyayev comes over in 2 years.
Manson plays a very physical game and he's no spring chicken anymore. He'll be 33 when the season starts. He also misses A LOT of time even if he was relatively healthy last year.
Orlov didn’t change anything, everyone knows he gave up term for high AAV. That may set the price for similar deals featuring short term and high AAV but wouldn’t effect long term deals. The increase that’ll happen this off season is the resumption of the summer that featured Hamilton/Jones/Nurse. Prices hadn’t gone up in awhile and that summer was when inflation hit, which was leading to an increase across the board. Covid then kicked in which delayed that and everything stayed level making those three deals seem out of whack. Now that we’re out of the Covid impact the new norm that had started is likely to resume itself.
The mid level players move to teams with cap space to get their money. Teams pay their top 5 or 6 guys and afford 1 or 2 mid level guys and fill out the roster with cheaper options. Reality of the business right now.
