1
Looking over the best teams over the last decade, I expected to see more with cores of 24-26 key players, but they tend to be filled with the 30-34 year olds (and up) having big seasons. I don't fault the M's for thinking they might hit a trifecta last season, but in retrospect that was obvious wishful thinking. They did a good job supplementing the young core this season, picking up guys like Bay for free. Bay has serious upside because of his past that Wells couldn't claim. You don't want to sign too many of these guys to long term expensive contracts, like we considered giving Bay himself a few years ago. But you want them on your roster.