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Originally Posted by Chief Rum
No one yet. But there's one on the block right now, and technically, I myself just received a player who was just re-signed by his team after being allowed to go to FA. That latter gets into tricky area (since he was re-signed by the same team), but you can definitely say a player wouldn't have signed a contract to return to a team only to be traded a day later.
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Well, MLB doesn't have a salary cap. So it never happens in baseball. But it happens in the NBA all of the time, because they have a salary cap and because players can make more money signing with their current team than they can on the open market before getting dealt.
The unwritten threshold has been to only allow trades of guys who have played at least a year with a team. I'm fine with enforcing that as edict, especially since you can release a guy to get under the cap.