I can't stand this argument. By this definition, there are only a handful of impact players ever worth acquiring and the odds of it happening are slim, as only 1-3 such players are actually available any given off-season. By only considering such players, a team might never doing anything. If you can upgrade your wins by 1-2 with an acquisition that doesn't cost too much in prospects over the life of the contract acquired, then you do it. Incremental growth can be a formula for success without having one of the rare under 30 MVP candidates. The bolded, I think, is the key part of his post. Incremental growth is fine, as is adding 1-2 win players instead of focusing on more elite players. However, if you're going to pay for a guy like he's a big improvement, he better be a big improvement. Garza is likely, at best, to improve us by 3 wins (that's if we get a 0 WAR from Silva, who he'd likely replace, and that's pretty unlikely) and that isn't worth paying big in prospects and paying him $5 million in an already crowded budget.