TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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Does it? 

My interpretation of this is that DET wanted to dump salary, and for once the dumpee PAID to take it. Multiple picks, too, though not crazy great ones. Still, no outgoing salary means a little bit of leverage, right?

I think they just gave him away. The pick package is sellable to fans, but fairly junky as to real value.

As to the cap room, that's not a high value, to say you'd rather have air. In theory it represents value, and in advance of free agency it looks like huge value -- but in real life, it just tends to give you the opportunity to considerably overpay for 2nd-tier players. That's where I think it ends up in this case.