I think you're overplaying the past. Steamers projects JD as a 5.2 WAR player this year and we can only assume it will continue to decrease in 2018 and beyond. If you're signing him to a $200M player, you're paying for his decline and "building" around a depreciating asset, who, moving forward, may not be the superstar he once was. That's what the Angels did went they signed Pujols and Hamilton.