we have such a good offense and such bad pitching, so i don't see that spending our available resources on maintaining that offense in lieu of improving pitching makes much sense. But we should have some payroll room so it wouldn't be an either/or issue imo. it's cynical, but i take "I really like it here and would love to resign" as a signing tool both to tell Milwaukee that we have a chance to resign him, and that other teams better make good offers to him to pull him away from here. But if this were true why would he say "I'll make some sacrifices to sign here"? That doesn't make sense. If he was doing what you're suggesting, he never would've said "make a sacrifice", just "I would like to re-sign here."