I think I'm like the only person who doesn't really care about losing the draft pick. I mean, I know why it's bad, but for some reason, maybe it's the crapshoot aspect of the draft or maybe it's the lack of recent success of our first round picks, who knows, but I'm just shrugging my shoulders at it. I don't like who gets an extra pick, though. As for Lohse himself, I figure he'll be fine for at least the first two years of the contract. The problem with the team right now is that they are unlikely to be bad enough to land high in the draft nor good enough to make the playoffs. The starting rotation, as it stood before Lohse, looked like it was much more likely to be bad than good, so we'd probably just end up with one of those useless slightly-below-average seasons. Our best chance to move either up or down was probably to bolster the rotation and move up, thus the Lohse signing.