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[NYCBrave]

No I'm saying even at 25M year for 8 years, that would have been a better course than acquiring Markakis, Miller, Jenkins plus an extra $5M/year of financial flexibility.

Is that factoring in the cost it would take to structure the rest of our roster, keeping in mind we have to put together a competitive team? 25/year is somewhere between 1/4 and 1/5 of the overall payroll. Factor in the long term deals we already have signed for multiple players, and the fact we don't have much cheap talent in the pipeline, and it seems like going forward we wouldn't have a great roster talent wise.