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[F Gump]

That may end up being the case, but I hope they try to eat his 17m cap hit this year instead. I don't want to stare at that 4.4m for 5 years. A s-w of 1.7 x 3 is less of an annoyance long term.

"This is where I’m at and think his value increases at the TDL."

None of us want the cap hit. But keeping Bertans' useless carcass on the bench in hopes for a trade down the road (which may or may not ever materialize), you're sacrificing the addition of one full MLE player (or a player using Wood SNT). And you're also clogging the roster which prevents having that slot to sign the most promising minimum salary guy to begin to develop. Would a deadline trade using just Bertans net more value than that? That's the question.