‘Let’s start with the numbers. The 29-year-old White is under contract for 2024 and 2025. His scheduled salary cap hit in 2024 is $16.443 million. White is due a roster bonus of $1.5 million on March 18, so that date serves as a deadline of sorts for Beane to make his decision. If White was released (or traded) before March 18, he would count $10.369 million against the 2024 cap in “dead money,” but the team would save $6.073 million in cap space. If Beane waited until after March 18 to release White, but did so before June 1, the cap savings would decrease to $4.573 million, while the dead money against the cap would increase to $11.869 million – making that an unlikely option.’