There's no doubt we're short-term sellers, but Ubaldo is a great longer term buying opportunity. If baseball reference's contract numbers are correct, Ubaldo's contract going forward is 4.2M, 5.75M, and 8M for 2012 - 2014, respectively.
I think this is the type of risk we need to take. We need to start turning prospects into players and a trade like this is how it happens. Dealing for Ubaldo doesn't blow up this team contending, it pushes us closer toward it. His contract locks him in until 2014 and does so at a very favorable price. Signing a comparable pitcher on the open market this (or next) offseason would cost probably close to 3x more and could be a significant albatross payroll-wise going forward. As the many "what does having the best farm system mean?" posts have explained, it basically means we have the pieces. What separates the great teams from the failures is how they use those pieces. Deals need to be made. Why not make this one?




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