It was not about his salary. It was about his results after the month of May every year, his OBP, K rate, etc, etc, coupled by the fact he did not provide plus D to compensate.
No way in hell you can assess this trade in April.
If you do want to talk about contracts and $, the Grichuk deal/extension was an example of one of the ones they got wrong. To the FO’s credit, they have got about 70% right. Grichuk just wasn’t one of them.