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Maybe the M's front office thinks that it can combine the Rays/Marlins approach with one that includes an Griffey/Ichiro/Felix franchise player. And that's all.
The Rays/Marlins have more postseason games over the last decade than the M's with far fewer $ resources.
Sell Ichiro and Felix to the fans and pay Z to provide cheap, competent players through the draft. Gross, but the M's are still making $, as Baker has pointed out, repeatedly.