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You can definitely find scenarios in which a team actually is playing an RLP, or worse, at CF, SS, C, maybe other positions.
As we both know, whether a team is going to wind up with a hemorrhage like that, or is going to have a better situation, is something that needs to be anticipated in the biz plan.
Plugging RLP values into a trade-vs-trade "calculation" might be reasonable in some cases, but it can't be done dogmatically or unthinkingly. As usual, what I object to is the implication that RLP-value is the "correct" basis for proceeding, and that other approaches are unintelligent.
In many cases, such as the one we're talking about here, plugging in RLP would have led to a lousy forecast.