As is the case with most small-market general managers, the prospects of giving a post-30-year-old player a multi-year contract could cause for sleepless nights. How do you juggle what’s best for a team primed to win, against the damage – or likely damage – that player may do to a roster and payroll four years in the future when the ability to keep the roster together gets even harder?
The answer to that is pretty easy: the roster and payroll will be no more difficult to put together than it is now.
I wrote last week focusing mainly on the dollars being spent for the next two seasons and the contracts that – potentially – come off the books in 2018.