Snell is set to be owed $62 million over the next two years. While the Giants have agreed to give him salary deferrals, these rights are not transferrable to any team that acquires him in the MLB Trade Deadline. This means that Snell will still take up $29.7 million of the Giants’ competitive balance tax calculation. To put it into perspective, that number amounts to a little over 12.5% of their competitive balance tax calculation payroll.

However, there is a caveat to this. The Giants can still gain some financial flexibility if they do choose to offload Snell’s contract in the MLB Trade Deadline. Melvin and the front office, if they do go on a fire sale, will have prorated savings of $5 million. But, the competitive balance tax savings would only amount to as much as $2 million. Clearly, offloading Melvin and shipping him away would not be as good of a choice as keeping him.