If only someone in the FO saw an guy that had a 100 point increase in BABIP and a career high in HR/FB ratio (which he actually almost matched this year) and thought...maybe it will be tough for him to repeat and maybe we should extract max value out of him. Seriously there were two options that made sense in this past off season with Rasmus, trade him or extend him. All the people that said "don't worry about trading him, just qualifying offer him" look pretty stupid now.
On a side note, no one in baseball has cost themselves more money this year than Colby. He's the anti BJ Upton.