General managers keep checking the landscape and keep shaking their heads, because everything that happens seems to reinforce two essential hypotheses.
No. 1: You almost never realize anything close to equal return in signing veteran players to long-term contracts.
No. 2: The perceived value of young players keeps rising and rising and rising.
The two premises will collide in the next two months, of course, as the trade market begins to take shape, with Premise No. 2 dramatically shaping decisions made by the GMs