I'd have totally tried to sign Wheeler. I suspect tho that Brodie/Fred/Jeff tried and failed to move him last deadline after getting Stroman as a short-term cost-saver and only wound up with 5 above-average guys by accident. But look where it (almost) got them! I don;t reflexively blame everything on Lousy Cheapass Management and these guys get a relatively long leash from me becasue I understand it's difficult but the Wheeler transition to me seems obviously badly played beginning to end, sure seems Lousy and Cheapass, and was an even a bigger mistake letting him go to a division rival. By the way I totally invented the "Five No. 1s" idea advanced above online wrt the Dmico/Estes rotation, mainly as something to justify all the energy I was going to spend rooting for them.