This is what I keep coming back to.
Who is the team that's gonna pull the trigger? Not the Astros, who lowballed him in the first place. Not the Rangers, given that they have spent their bullet here. Maybe the Yanks or Dodgers? But if not them, who?
He gets the Lindor money if one of the 30 teams wants to give him Lindor money. We probably won't know who it is until it happens