smg58 wrote: The Phillies gave $60 million to a guy whose career OPS+ is 1 point higher than Lucas Duda's, at a position where they were already strong, and that's your counter-example for why we need to act now? Santana had a 3.0 WAR in '17 and a 3.4 WAR in '16, so yeah, that's my "counter-example", especially when Sandy tore down Smith not 2 months ago (which he now claims was to light a fire). I hope you're right, it's not February yet but I'm skeptical.