As we roll around ideas for the Sox getting below the CBT threshold while remaining competitive, can we revisit a version of an idea that I think was floated earlier this offseason? What if the Sox extended Price on a cheap but real extension, not one merely calculated to circumvent the CBT? For example, offer to replace his existing deal with a 4 year deal that essentially tacks on $4M in new money, making it a $100M deal, and "sweetening" it by front-loading (say, $35/$30/$20/$15) and giving him an opt-out after year 2? That gives him more guaranteed money and some new flexibility in exchange for some payroll relief. It would shave $6M off the team's AAV. That plus a Bradley dump trade would get them pretty close to $208, depending on other moves. Price would obviously have to agree, but he might, with this sort of structure. It's favorable to him. He'd have a legit choice to walk after year two, depending on what the new CBA looks like, and his health, etc.