After all, duller team=fewer readers.

I personally take them all with a grain of salt, but I don’t understand why LEN’s blog comment carries more weight than Mackey’s.

And I don’t need anyone to respond with the idea that LEN and Joe C are mouthpieces of the front office. That is happy horse manure.

Something like, “my sense is… they’re done”. Not exactly a lot of confidence in that. I don’t know how good his sense is. It’s been wrong before. His Achilles Heal is talking to too few folks. Not everyone in the FO has identical opinions.

Besides, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for three reasons:

1. They have a roster spot open
2. They’re payroll is between $97 and $99 million, depending on how much they pay players under team control. Ergo, they still have a little room.
3. They can always sign more MFAs without technically going over budget.

Finally, this is not a firm reason, but Ryan has occasionally gone a couple of million over budget if an opportunity came along. E.g. Kenny Rogers.