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The idea with RLP's is that they earn much more than their salaries. (BTW, any metric that has Jack Wilson as being worth $13M a season is a busted metric IMHO.)
The usual logic applied to the Jack Wilsons of the game, is that you can get 80%-90% of their performance, for almost no salary.
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This RLP logic ("a smart saberdude would have gone after Joe Shlabotnik at $1M/year) has been applied 100's or 1,000's of times to excoriate GM's for precisely the Jack Wilson type of trade. Zduriencik will get a pass, which is great by me, but it would be nice to see some fairness towards GM's who aren't our faves.