I prefer value, not cheap.
I get it, we all get FOMO when we see all the shiny free agents get snatched up.
But I'll defend Schneider, if you study the market MOST of these guys don't work out, and most of them are overpaid. It's why they got released by their teams or didn't get offered extensions in the first place.
If we were 1 or 2 players away from a serious deep playoff run? Yeah I'd be yelling about plugging those holes with difference makers. But to spend 15-20M of cap on one dude who's only going to marginally help us for maybe a year or two?
Doesn't make a lot of sense. Wave 2 and 3 is where some value can be found at a much lower cost to plug holes.