Are we slightly overpaying for Cameron? Yes. But we're also underpaying for the services of Braun, Hart, Fielder, YoGa, and to some extents Weeks, Hardy, and Parra. Being GM means playing a balancing game. Know where you're underpaying guys and use the extra money to overpay at other positions (ie Cam and the Pen ). I don't mind in the least since it's not a long term deal that might preclude us from resigning some of the "underpaid" players (cough Suppan cough). Not talking Cam's option and offering Arby might have led to another team deciding they can overpay him even more than what we did. And if that team was the Yankees, we would have gotten a 600th round pick for losing Cam.