[NoOne]

with detroit, i'd take as many financial lumps that first fiscal year. there's no hope for that team in 2018 anyway. (this is the only team with which i am familiar enough to say such things)

can't trade zimmerman? dump him... take a loss that year and virtually no negative effects the following... and zero 2 years later as long as you don't spread out the costs. cabrara should be tradeable for some future asset... younger is better since it's likely a long rebuild.

cabrera, zimmerman, and any play on that team making multi-millions is just dead weight.

iglesias should be replaceable. a ~.250BA, no power and decent defense is replaceable most years... if not, you pay him for a bit longer, no biggie, but don't do anything long-term. 1 year contracts are no problem at all.

same with a catcher... even more so with a catcher. they are ubiquitous for the most part... very little differentiates them offesnively, except for 2-3 players per generation, if lucky to have that many.

for the most part with catchers you pay an exorbitant price for a bottom third bat, even if it's a "good" catcher's bat. you get less from improving your catcher than you do for paying more elsewhere on the roster 9 times out of 10. compare incremental changes of any decision... easy to see with catchers, or it should be.

if they aren't mike piazza, i'd rather they make 500k to 2-3million tops. one year contracts can go larger, of course. perfect stopgap contracts... as long as there is room, it is not a negative in any way to overpay for 1 year.