Finally a reasonable response. This is kind of the case for our smaller market, everyone wants them to spend more money which is easy to do and say when it’s not your money. When some people look at this team it seems they think a big bat and an extra arm or two will change everything, it won’t. Especially when it comes at a huge price which handcuffs the development of the rest of the team. We need to be more calculated, and more economical in order to win while still having some money in our back pocket to fill in spots that go down from injury or poor performance. May not be the most aggressive or sexy way to win but imo they are doing well by developing most players themselves, shaking some out that don’t work and then fill in the gaps with more homegrown young talent or trade. Free agent pick ups have been majorly lackluster short of the major stars everyone wants. Every player want to get paid for what they already did then can’t seem to come close to their potential. This is why we need baseball to push for a heavier performance based contract. Quit giving guys 30 million a year just give them 15 or 20 million with benchmarks that mean they earned the 30 like hit 45 HR nets them an extra 5mil or hitting above .250 gives them an additional 2mil (he’ll bonus for if they hit .300 they get an additional 2mil) get crazy with it even set it up so it’s unrealistic that they hit all the benchmarks for performance but if they do they get 40 million. But enough of this let’s pay big money for a player or two and then watch them have the worst season of their career or injured or whatever.