(07-05-2017, 03:41 PM)Shaka Wrote:Ya that's weird. Free agents are free agents. Expansion teams should hold no rights to those players.
Even as an expansion GM, I agree with Shaka. Not fair to those players, they signed a 1-year deal on purpose. This shouldn't screw them out of it.
With that being said, I think expansion GMs should be able to negotiate with any upcoming FAs that are left unprotected prior to drafting them. I don't want to draft a guy, then him leave for free agency before I can even talk to him.