Free agency can be a tricky thing. On our sister site Battle Red Blog I write a regular feature titled “Value of Things.” The genesis behind that was simple. Everyone has value. Even bench guys have value. In a sport where spending is fixed (at least 28 teams operate this way in MLB) the teams that succeed are the teams that accurately peg the value of players best.
So, I operate with two general rules to start off with. Number one, it makes no sense to sign an expensive player when a cheaper player will do the same thing.