yep. i want him so badly. give them soler/baez/pierce Soler is literally the only one that gives me pause. I wouldn't blink if anyone else went. i'm not going to say that i wouldn't trade soler for stanton, but i'd much rather give up anyone else before him So I just realized, partially thanks to Brett's article on Stanton, that Stanton is not a FA after next season. He's under arb until the end of 2016. So he's still under control for 2 more seasons. This whole time I was under the assumption that he was a FA after 2015 because I thought I read somewhere in a preseason outlook that he was either going to be traded or extended because he'd only have one year left in Miami in 2015. Sooooo yeah, he's got 2 more years of team control. Not sure if everyone knew that. That will definitely drive the price up, but because of that I think it makes it even harder for other teams to give what they need to move him, and leaves the Cubs as the only team with the resources to pull it off. To have Stanton under control for two more years instead of one is waaaaaaaay better, and even makes the idea of moving our guys for him without an extension in place easier to swallow.