can you guarantee not signing him means Zimmermann and Desmond stay? otherwise it's a false dilemma
I'm still curious how cano bumps the odds by 10-20%, but the absence of Desmond and zimmermann take the odds to 0
It doesn't, necessarily. If Giolito and Cole turn out great then maybe Zimmermann and Fister are expendable in two years. All I'm saying is that every team besides two runs out of money. Detroit could afford Prince Fielder....and then had to trade him to presumably pay one of their young core. The Angels had more money than everyone...until they wasted so much on the wrong players. I'm in no hurry to spend the difference between our current payroll and the Lerners max payroll, not with so many guys on the team I'd like to see extended and not to incrementally improve our offense when we could sign a similar offensive player at a less premium position for 20-40% of the cost