If you have young talent that is good enough to allow you to content now.....why not keep them and use them to that extent. Why isn't Walker + Colon (for example/fill in with your own available favorite veteran arm) just as much as a much a recipe for contending in '14 as Price + Erasmo? Price, btw, doesn't do diddly for us (unless extended/unlikely) to compete/contend in '16.
I want to contend next year. I don't want to sell off all our terrific young parts to do it. I don't think we have to. We have cash. There are FA's out there that can help us contend now...and not break the bank. Keeping our core of terrific young parts allows us to have the best chance to contend in '17, too.
I know the Red Sox just won the series, but the template to follow is that of the Cardinals. They nurture their young talent (especially pitchers) then play them. They trade them later not earlier.
Different strokes, I know.
moe
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