What happens if we aren't winning anything in two years? Then what do we do? Start over again and take another 7 years to build anything?
Then Zimmerman probably dons pinstripes, and we re-load (load maybe) and hope Harper, Strass, and a by then very well paid, but likely declining Werth will be enough. I may be insane, but I think for the future of this franchise (at least in the near to mid term) it's important to make a run while Zimmerman is still here with Strassburg and hopefully Harper ready