TT, if our budget were a thing we were bumping up against, or if it came at the expensive of adding Darvish or Cespedes or whatever, that I can understand giving whatever you would have given Aramis for a better now + long term investment. But, IIRC (and I am too lazy to look it up), I feel like he signed with Milwaukee after those other dominoes fell. We have a miniscule payroll; there would have been nothing wrong with letting your best player from 2004-2011 finish it out here. Especially if you want to go younger long term-having a couple veteran guys like Soriano and Ramirez isn't the worst thing ever. But, if the overall plan wasn't to contend this year or next, doesn't that sort of eliminate the injury risk there? It's not as if it's a thing like, if he gets hurt, we're in a bind because we're trying to win and we've already spent $110m on the team. You could still have brought in Stewart and let him back Ramirez up. Of course, maybe he picks up his side of the option if Brenly + media doesn't spend 3 months last year torching him for stupid reasons, with the front office doing nothing to stop it. It's water under the bridge now, but I thought the move sucked then and think it sucks now, because it's hard for me to shake the feeling that our management team decided to go all-in on a video game rebuild just to see if they could pull it off.