‘“A player of his caliber, you weigh a lot of things on the situation,” Beane said. “From a cap standpoint, we decided to just go ahead and eat it now and we think we can compete and do what we need to do by eating it now and then not walk into next year … because if we didn’t, if we tried to come up with some way and split it up too many different ways, now it’s just like that albatross, just hanging on your neck all year. You look at your cap and you’re going, ‘Oh, man, look at how much money we still have dead.”’