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I understand this, but at the same time, why spend anything more than expendable assets for a guy who is going to be available to the highest bidder in less than a year
The omnipresent fallacy in this line of thinking is that you believe that your team will be able to sign a UFA just because they want to. The open market doesn't work that way. The only way to ensure that you can acquire the player is to trade for their rights. Like it or not, if you are trading for a player and extending their contract as a part of the deal, "fair value" for that player is the same as if they were already controlled under that extended contract.