The main reason I see this as a good avenue is that, well, we aren't getting a good cost-controlled arm. We'd have to include MLB pieces, and Theo isn't doing that (outside of maybe Almora). We aren't backing into one of those guys, either. Either the A's get good value for Gray or they wait until the off-season and try again. They have options. Other teams will most assuredly outbid us there. Here we could have the Rangers backed into a corner, where nobody else is offering up much of anything. The market simply doesn't materialize. And they are faced with losing Darvish in the off-season or picking through our scraps. Sure, we could be blown out of the water. But this is the one place where we might not.