If a rental doesn't mind a rebuild and wants to eventually win a championship, but wants to stay put where they are, I've always wondered why they don't get together with the team trading them and pull a Chapman. Where there is an unspoken agreement that you go play somewhere else for the rest of the season, we'll get some prospects to help out moving forward, you get a shot with a contender, and then we bring you back in the offseason. It would seem like it would make sense to do that in those narrow circumstances lol
Just like Kenny Lofton