Its not about popularity, its about having all your assets available in order to upgrade the roster. Pillar is a fine player but falling in love with a player in this business is detrimental.
If this is true then that says all I need to know about him. Enjoy beautiful Miami though. Maybe all those gorgeous Latinas will convince him to drop weight and trade us Jose Fernandez
Even if he only pitches 130-150 ip that deal would still be good but I doubt he signs anything like that. Some dumn dumn will give him 6/180 and be angry for the duration of that contract because they gave into Boras