Report: Twins Pushing to Sign RHP Ervin Santana

I'm ok with trading veteran pitchers we sign today for prospects down the line when our young pitchers are ready to establish themselves if that's how we can handle the log jam of pitchers.  I also think having Santana on our staff now makes us a .500 team as is.  if Nolasco rebounds and a solid 5th starter emerges then we could compete for a Wild Card / Division Title.

I don't understand the assumption that we will be able to trade them "down the line." Whether it is because they collapse, like Nolasco, because we overpaid, or because of just normal age-related decline, it is a big and unjustified assumption that we will be able to trade veteran starters a few years later when they are 34 or35 and are attached to a $12-18 million a year salary.