There are a couple challenges I see with a Gallo deal:
1. If LA is trading Gallo, it’s to acquire either assets or cap space [assuming they’re looking to sign two big players this summer]. We can’t really offer the first (well, at least we shouldn’t, unless it was this year’s pick and we didn’t care about it... but after all we’ve passed up on for keeping our picks, it’d be disappointing to exchange that for one year of Gallo), so it’s possible we could land him to help them open cap space.
2. The problem of landing him on our end is more of a logistics question of how we obtain him. If we traded Favors for him, we could maintain some flexibility by operating above the cap and still having the MLE. However, trading Favors for him would defeat the purpose of LA dealing him because they want cap space, so we’d have to trade for him without sending much salary back, meaning we’d have to create cap space (by renouncing our rights on guys) and then absorbing his salary into our available cap in the deal. This leaves us strapped because we no longer have the flexibility of using the MLE.
3. All the years of “flexibility” would be wasted on a short-run of Gallo. We need to snag someone now before we go above the cap permanently, unless Gallo is a place holder, but that puts us back on the revolving door, looking forward to “the future,” that we’ve been doing for sometime now.
