You Could Look It Up: The Magic 15 Puzzle

In these times of economic difficulty, shrinking player payrolls, and elephantine superstar salaries, all it takes for a team to handicap its ability to add salary to address a need—say that key hitter that will put the club over the top in its divisional race—or even to shed salary to lessen the blow of a lost season, is one key mistake.

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