HomoSapien wrote:Unless the injury is going to keep him out longer than 10 weeks, I think he's still able to do what you're describing.
Plantar Fascitis is one of those injuries with a high rate of recurrence. It definitely increases the risk that he won't really be playing well or be fully healthy all year, and given he will definitely still be out at the deadline for at least a couple weeks with no real vision on when he'll come back, the added risk the team takes on probably lowers his value in that role.
A bit "in the eye of the beholder", maybe a team would ignore that risk or feel good enough about his progress or specific medicals would counteract the risk and make it less than I am saying it is. I'm not really sure, but I'd guess that you might have found someone willing to overpay for a healthy Craig that needed a small cap contract of someone who could be a full rotation 3&D wing player. That has to be a near zero fill niche.
Would shock me if you could have gotten a 20+ 1st for him just for at team that wanted the player of that type without massively increasing the luxury tax bill, the fact he could fit into TPEs probably made it even easier to contract (or that lots of Vet min guys would have the exact same salary number).
