Olivo was already signed by the time Napoli was moved by the Angels to a non-division team - who then traded him to a division team. We'd already bought in on Cust. Both of those happened in December and Napoli was available from the Blue Jays in January. It was bad timing for us.
And Napoli was not cheap. He made 5.8 million last year, he'll make quite a bit more this year, and then is a FA. Olivo over 2 years cost just a million-ish more than Napoli for one. Cust + Olivo made what Napoli made.
Napoli is WORTH twice as much as Olivo, and more than Olivo + Cust, but we had a budget crunch and several spots to fill.
I would have loved him, but we were cheap last year. Jaso is WAY cheaper than Napoli, so here's hoping we can move from "cheap & bad" to "cheap & good" with this move and some others.
~G
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