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The trick is to only pay Stars with more than 2 years. Everyone else should be either a developing young player or Civic rental at 1-2 years. The second year of the Civic needs to be viewed as a sunk cost. If the Civic fails to meet expectations, he should be able to be replaced on the roster (traded or released). The short, fat pyramid paradigm in play with replacements who can play multiple positions. We should plan on 1-2 positional player failures and be able to replace them with our current payroll. This works if we have a good pipeline of young, developing players. Ideally, we pay the stars with more money, not more years. If we are successful, players will want to stay with the club and extend their contracts (Jack's "We have a nice story to tell here in Seattle.").
God bless, Michael