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Is it ever worth overpaying for reliable mediocrity while saving our super-prospects for another year of minor league development? There may be a good chance that one or more of our prized prospects would out-pitch Saunders in 2012, but instead we can keep them in AAA and gain another year of team control. OK, so I'm being a little sarcastic. Do we have to wait for them to be ready to win the ROY or Cy Young before promoting them? Or do they just need to be the best player we have for the job this spring?
I will consider that Millwood as an innings eater was probably worth more to the club in 2012 than his actual WAR value, mostly because the best alternatives in-house were in AA. Saunders may still be relative bargain over his WAR value as insurance, not that any of the kids may not be ready, but to temper the loss of Vargas' and Millwood's innings, and that Iwakuma, Erasmo, and Beavan don't falter any.