I'd rather have someone who can play 90% of the time (position player) than Quero, a catcher who can only play 50% of the time. His bat isn't good enough to be a DH, and I prefer Teel by quite a bit.
I think a Salary Floor is far more attainable and actually makes more sense. 100 million floor. Older veterans will still get reasonable contracts and bad teams wont just "throw away" money on bad players so they'd theoretically be forced to at least sign some guys.
You're so silly. of course the Red Sox were going to "win the trade" in year one.. we received a bunch of prospects. None of which may I add, took a step back.