It seems the club only seems to grow…

If only I could figure out how to get the word “seems” into that sentence 7 or 8 more times…

To be pedantic, we are not stuck with Silva until his contract expires. We are only stuck with his contract; getting rid of Silva himself is an exceedingly simple operation, but nobody yet has mustered the courage to perform it.

Picker of nits are you? It seems the club only seems to grow…

Much as I hate to think it, let alone admit it, Jeff has it right. The M’s are stuck with the chef’s albatross of a contract.

Anyway, you’re absolutely right, but I don’t see many scenarios where we get rid of one but not the other.

“We are stuck with Silva until his contract expires. No one is going to take him off our hands, much less give us anything back for the combination of his bloated self and his bloated contract.”

One important factor you’re overlooking is that if Silva gets a little better and a little lucky for a while, the M’s might be able to parlay that into someone taking him while paying 20% of his salary, or tossing us a B- prospect or something. That’s not the case with Jakubauskas or Manuel.

(No, I’m not particularly hopeful this will actually happen, but it’s a possible future event with a probability greater than zero by a non-trivial amount)

I believe I’m actually agreeing with you in a way. I’m saying Jakubauskas and Manuel were let go because Silva still MAY have something to offer the team (even if that is a B prospect in a salary dump situation). I was responding to a comment that implied that Silva was worse than those two guys and only being kept around because of his salary. I don’t think Jack Z. operates that way. I think he judges Silva to be more valuable than Jakubauskas and Manuel, in one way or another.

Triunfel doesn’t need to be. As an international player signed in 2006, he doesn’t have to be protected from the Rule 5 draft until next year at the earliest.

One important factor you’re overlooking is that if Silva gets a little better and a little lucky for a while, the M’s might be able to parlay that into someone taking him while paying 20% of his salary, or tossing us a B- prospect or something. That’s not the case with Jakubauskas or Manuel.

(No, I’m not particularly hopeful this will actually happen, but it’s a possible future event with a probability greater than zero by a non-trivial amount)

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I can’t believe I did that. I want to crawl into a cave and hide.