Originally Posted by
rydermike
$5.2M TAM?? I thought it was $4 million TAM. $1.2M + $2.8M in discretionary? That's how I did my calculation, ~$1M for Vasquez, ~$1M for vdW, $375 traded to DC equals $4 M available less ~$2.375M spent equals ~$1.625M remaining. As far as I know, Mavinga isn't a TAM player, he's just a high salary we can GAM down.
If you're adding in the $1.2M from next year, I didn't account for that, since all these guys are on multi-year deals, if we use next year's TAM this year, we'd have to get rid of one next year, since we'd only have our discretionary TAM left. There's no guarantee they add more TAM next year (not counting my chickens before they hatch), so I'd rather not waste next year's TAM and then have to cut a Vasquez