From a personal point of view I don’t like the idea of Smith becoming a cap casualty – I’d like him around for another year to teach Heyward and keep teaching Ziggy and let him leave on his own terms. But with my pretty basic knowledge of cap management, I don’t know exactly how a deal in its final year can be restructured to lower its cap value. Maybe portions of it can be turned into easily attainable performance bonuses or something, but I can’t pretend to know more than I do.

When we gave Adams a contract with 2.5 million in year one, 5 million in year two, that just seemed to me like a one year deal dressed up into something a little more palatable for a proud veteran like Adams to sign. I never thought we’d actually come to a point considering keeping him for that second year. But with Colon’s agent saying all the things to indicate that Willie might be unwanted and looking to walk, who knows…