Yam Gomes post trade thought

Yan Gomes was traded to save money.    Why was that necessary?   People say that the increase in payroll caused us to have to shed salary.

However, I want to put a different spin on that.   One of the major reasons we had to trade Gomes was because we signed Yonder Alonso to the 2 year, $16 million salary.   Alonso is a platoon player and you don't pay platoon players $8 a year.   Any moron can look at his lifetime splits and see he can't hit lefties.  Alonso has not helped us at all and won't in the future.

If you don't sign the irrelevant Alonso you have enough money to keep Gomes and maybe the starting pitcher and STILL win the division.

So, the ridiculous, inflated Alonso signing has cost us Gomes and maybe the starting pitcher.

I could even stomach that IF we could get something back of value.   But we are apparently incapable of that.