What to do with Josh Donaldson.  He is under contract for 2018, a FA after that, at which point he will be 33.  Should you re-sign a player who is going to be on the downside of his career to a big-money long-term deal, say 6 yrs for $180 mill?

The answer is....drum roll please....don't be daft, no way.  Even if you could re-up him this off-season for the same deal, still awful.  Don't know how much more proof people need that these long-term deals for players in their 30s almost never pan out.

At least, not on the field.  Financially, ownership is considering other factors that are much more important to them, mainly, revenue.  It's all 'bout selling your wares, and Your Js, just a means to sell Rogers' stuff.

Rogers is going to ride this gravy train as long as they can.  When things so sideways, well, ownership will at that point see the obvious and get our of Dodge.

It will have even a nice run, Rogers will have made a pile of dough.  And that has made all the difference....