Yeah but he didn't spend all year w/ STL last year, i know he won the world series there, but he'll w/ us the whole season & he must see the potential on this team he could take the 1 mil a year raise signs for 3/36 mil.
Guaranteed extra $24 million > "likes the team and sees the potential." If there's a 5/60 or 4/50 offer out there to be had, he'd be a fool not to take it. $24 million guaranteed isn't to be sneezed at.
And as much as I love what he's doing, his career numbers say this isn't who he is. He's walking far fewer and has a .231 BABIP against - maybe he's turned a corner, but maybe that's not sustainable, either. And even if this IS who he is, Greinke's still better at the same age. Don't get me wrong, I love what he's doing, and think (and thought) it was one of Rizzo's better moves, but I don't love him as a long-term solution. I don't hate him either, but I'd want to take a run at Greinke before caving to what I think will be a big offer.
As for CF, I don't think you can resolve that until you figured out what you're doing with 1b and Lombo. If you bring back LaRoche, then you're pretty much locking out CF options - Morse, Harper and Werth all have to play, so you're looking at Harper as your long-term CF. If you don't, then you can move Morse to 1b, but need to decide what to do with Lombo before you bring in an everyday CF.