Well if your right in your calculations, this is a no-brainer decision to trade. Even if your off by let’s say 6-10 million, it still NEEDS to be done. Not sure about FA, but there are in-house or trade options available. The zero Cain CF regression, and 41-51 million in savings make it a easy decision. At a minimum if this team wants to contend next year, quite the changes are necessary. 14-17 million next year can help in better ways. You say this as fact, but you are literally the ONLY person saying it. Joseph literally says in his post that while he believes Cain may have a smidgen of surplus value, but that it doesn't matter because he isn't going anywhere, and instead you glob onto the value thing to drive home the idea that the Brewers NEED to do this? Like it's some sort of foregone conclusion? Wow ... that's all I have to say. Wow. First off, I’m not the only one that wants rid of Cain. Kinda weird if you read back thru this thread how you’d come to that conclusion. Secondly, Joseph only states he doesn’t think Stearns will trade because of Cain’s superior run prevention. That’s his opinion. Quite a few posters have said if we can trade Cain without eating much or any $, they WOULD be all for getting that contract off the books. IF IF IF, we could rid ourselves of this contract without eating any $, you wouldn’t do it?