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The M's have the following resources this offseason:
(1) Enough money to make one huge payroll addition or two good ones.
(2) A number of existing tradable assets
Priority one seems to be to use (1) to get an A#1 Double-Plus Genuine Leather MOTO bat. If you sign a Martinez, then you can use your tradable chips to add pitching and/or a lesser bat.
BUT... if you instead use (1) to get Lester, you are essentially done with your entire pitching staff. No further addition is needed. The upshot is, you then have ALL your remaining resources to add a bat or two via trade. Your flexibility to add payroll to accommodate a trade target is reduced to zilch, but you can throw a boatload of talent at any potential trading partner.