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But reworking Iwakuma's contract makes huge amounts of sense. He's a sunk cost of $7M next year (unless his arm falls off soon, then you're only into him for $1M), so reworking his deal to be a 3 yr/$50M deal starting in '15 makes great sense. Add an option year, with a $2M buy out and he would sign pronto.
And you can do it because the rest of our rotation, Paxton-Walker-Elias-whatever 6'10 reclamation project we pick up, comes very cheap.
Starting at age 33, Seaver had 4 seasons in a row where his WHIP stayed in the 1.1's, MIke Cuellar, a different breed of cat, did it 3 seasons in a row. Tommy John came back from surgery as a 33 year old. As a fulltime starter prior to that, he mostly lived in the 1.1's, he neveer got to that number again. But he was atough pitcher for another gazillion years because he almost never gave up a homer. Kuma's homer rate seems to be on a declining path. He's getting better at missing in the right spot.
Be bold, Z.
moe