Amazingly, mgmt apparently had a plan!

Moves like this cascade together. Big-ticket NATs go out the door (Gittens and, to a lesser extent, Williams), along with an INT who would expect to be paid mid-100s (Bede). In comes a NAT (Hajrallahu) to replace Bede (probably around the same salary), but combined with the other moves this opens room to keep/sign other NATs and bring in a replacement INT elsewhere on the roster at about half the price of Bede. It sucks to lose great players and great guys like Bede, but roster building in a cap environment, where roughly half the experienced players become free agents every year, requires sacrifice and a lack of sentimentality.