As a companion piece to yesterday’s piece on Yuli Gurriel, I thought I would outline my preferred way of spending money and/or resources. This assumes one major thing: if the team is willing to spend 25-30 million a season for Alex Bregman then they are also willing to spend that money collectively on another player or a group of players.
In 2000, the Mariners traded Ken Griffey Jr. for amounted to be Mike Cameron and Brett Tomko. In no universe is that a balanced deal. However, since those players made very little, they were able to use the money that had slotted for Griffey to get additional players that offseason.