re: Keep Holiday and Davis and blow the rest of the roster up. Who's with me?

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I'd rather him be off the books after a year than on it for a little bit for several.

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His extra on the books is practically irrelevant. Once you cross the cap you're limited to your annual exceptions anyway and since we'd have freshly crossed the cap it would take multiple years of lopsided transactions to get to the tax line. If we stretch him and sign a Green for $9 million this offseason, the only place it hits is Benson's bottom line. Now that could be somewhat of a factor as part of me thinks Salmons only got $2 million instead of $2.7 million and becoming a bigger trade chip because with Asik's balloon payment the player payroll had reached dangerously close the the kind of round figure Benson would throw out as a spending limit, $75 million. But outside of Benson mandated spending limits, there should be no actual affect on the GM's ability to pursue players by stretching Gordon.