Because, in all likelyhood he wont be as bad as he was last year again this year. And if you throw him in the 8 spot with the lineup we've got already, then it wont hurt us much at all, and it'd be pretty darn cheap too. Look at this lineup Murton Walker Lee Giles Aram Nomar Barrett Patterson You can arrange 1-7 anyway you want, but the fact is in a lineup including Giles, Lee, Aram, and Nomar, the 8th spot, all things considered, is fairly trivial. All that being said, I still voted for wilkerson.