Yeah, pretty much this. They paid JBJ what they paid him to be a major contributor. You can call him whatever you want, but to say he's a 4th OFer is clearly misleading even if technically true. And while I don't blame Stearns that JBJ has a .558 OPS, I do question whether 14 million on a career .726 OPS defensive centerfielder was a worthwhile investment. I don't totally agree with others though that you can't blame the GM when you sign a guy and he performs under his career averages. Isn't that kind of their job? Talent evaluation and trying to project who might outperform and underperform projections? If it was just as simple as writing a check and hoping a guy matches his career averages, any schlub could do it. Conversely, we didn't acquire Wade Miley and say, "can't give credit to the GM when a guy outperforms his career averages." We said "awesome acquisition," as we should have. Same thing in reverse.