I like to be up front and honest as much as I can. Intellectual integrity is important to me. For those that are uninitiated, that means that it is hard to keep a reputation as a reasonable analyst and blatantly omit when I was wrong. I liked the Jose Abreu signing at the time. Three years seemed a bit much for a 36 year old first baseman, but I just thought it seemed like the cost of doing business.
The assumption was that you probably would get two productive years out of him and then he would likely break down in that third year.