- he plays for the team
- he is being hyped up like crazy by all sporting outlets
- people love cliche's such as "he'll stay cause we'll make him love the city" or "he'll stay cause of that offense, wow how could a pitcher say no?" ... blah blah blah
Realistically if this team was going after a pitcher they'd like go after Gallardo, Iwakuma, Kennedy, Leake with a pipe dream of Samardzija.