I imagine they will rework Zim’s contract to keep him an extra year or two and bring down the overal AAV number. Like 3 years 27 million (I’m making the number up). He gets to retire a Nat and get 9 million extra bucks and it cuts his AAV number in half next season. So the nats would save almost 2 million in luxury tax.
That would be an insane waste of money and only done for nostalgic purposes.