Ogunley C A N N O T be Traded!

[Merman]

The trading of rights is not so simple or well know. First a caveat.

the CBA states

(h) No Consideration Between Clubs.
There may be no consideration of any kind given by one Club to another Club in exchange for a Club’s decision to exercise or not to exercise its Right of First Refusal, or in exchange for a Club’s decision to submit or not to submit an Offer Sheet to a Restricted Free Agent or to make or not to make an offer to enter into a Player Contract with a Restricted Free Agent. If a Club exercises its Right of First Refusal and matches an Offer Sheet, that Club "may not" trade that player to the Club that submitted the Offer Sheet for at least one calendar year, unless the player consents to such trade.

(j) No Assignment.
No Right of First Refusal may be assigned to any other Club (except as provided in Article XVI (College Draft), Section 7 or as agreed by the player in the circumstances set forth in Section 5 below). This prohibition applies to any Right of First Refusal described in this Agreement (except as described in Section 5 below), including any Right of First Refusal with respect to Restricted Free Agents, Transition Players, or Drafted Rookies described in Article XVI (College Draft), Section 5.
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A RFA has to be tendered a guaranteed offer, negotiate the rights, sign a wavier explaining what he is giving up and the contract. The player with that the contract can then be traded. The tender amounts have to be updated to to the 2004 amounts.

The CBA states

Section 5. Individually Negotiated Limitations on Player Movement:

(a) All individually negotiated limitations on player movement are prohibited, except as specifically provided as follows:

(i) If a Restricted Free Agent has been tendered a Qualifying Offer of (a) Paragraph 5 Salary of at least $275,000 for a player with three Accrued Seasons, or (b) at least $325,000 for a player with four Accrued Seasons, or (c) at least 110% of his prior year’s Paragraph 5 Salary, whichever is greater (in each case with all other terms of his prior year contract carried forward), and the Qualifying Offer is fully guaranteed for skill and injury, the Restricted Free Agent and his Prior Club may negotiate and contract for
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an individual Right of First Refusal with respect to the services of such player.

(c) Any individual Right of First Refusal that is negotiated and contracted for pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) above shall be void and unenforceable unless it is specified in a separate document signed by such player in the form annexed hereto as Appendix F, acknowledging such player’s waiver of the express right that Unrestricted Free Agents have under this Agreement to be free of any Right of First Refusal restriction on their freedom of movement.

(f) Rights of First Refusal negotiated pursuant to this Section 5 may be traded or assigned as part of a player’s contract.

 

[Scrap]

I think we should just go ahead and trade him, so we can end this arguement.