I have a serious question here. Of course Jose Ramirez makes us a much better team for the next 2 years based on his contract.
However, do we reach a point where we have too many players on our team that we just can't afford long term that it doesn't make sense to mortgage our young talent for? Assuming we keep Semien and Ray, do you still want to make this trade thinking that there is very little chance we can actually keep Jose after 2 years.
The whole plan Shatkins have been pushing is having a balance of experienced vets with controllable cost effective young talent.