re: DAT 7/10: An off day to enjoy the sweep

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In the future, 4-5 years down the road when their skills start diminishing, yes it will and their contracts will look ugly.

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GM Rule #1: if you have what you think is a bad contract (Ian), you don't swap it for a longer, more expensive bad contract (Prince). How is it that Prince wasn't worth signing as a FA two years prior, yet two years of declining production later, he's worth trading for? And this doesn't factor in that Ian's replacement (Profar) hasn't shown a whole lot at the MLB level. Ian was traded based on Profar's potential, which is dangerous enough, and worse given what came in return.

GM Rule #2: you don't give large contracts to players unless they can hit both lefties and righties (Choo). 7/$130M for someone who, in an injury-free world, would have to be platooned with Michael Choice?

And this doesn't include the Elvis deal (which I thought was good, but sadly is proving to be yet another in the albatross collection).

Oh and the "staff ace" can't give the bullpen any rest because he can't finish games, and he can't help gain ground on the division leader because he can't beat them.

This team has way more holes than you want to believe.