1
I didn't.
2011 - $4M
2012 - $5.5
2013 - $7
2014 - $7.5
So that's four full years at club-controls money. He was (supposedly) worth $27M in 2009, and $9M last year.
Still, if he's a mediocre player in Safeco, and floundering Beltre-like, but a real good player to somebody else, your hand is forced, right?
What do you do with a guy worth 40 cents to you, $1 to anybody else, signed at 30 cents?