The signing of Billy Butler elicited a wide variety of reactions. Some thought it was a foolish long-term deal for a declining, bad-body, no-defense player. Others praised it as a buy-low move for an undervalued hitter coming off of an off-year, in the same winter that fellow DH Victor Martinez got nearly twice as much annual money on his deal. You could have had almost any opinion on Butler and still backed it up with a valid, logical argument. Unfortunately, the naysayers look to be the ones who called this one correctly, at least so far.
I was optimistic about the signing, as I tend to be when it comes to the A's.