$13M a year is not a make-or-break, big market deal. Carlos Delgado was making more than that annually in the early 2000's. Plus, they had just let Hunter and Santana go, which doesn't scream of "adding payroll".
As I said, go look up that Louis CK bit and you'll get it. It's just shifting the impetus on the reader to fill in whatever derogatory term they want for whatever generic term you want to universally deem acceptable.
Sweet, the board finally is trying to come up with its own version of "the N-word". (By which I mean the actual phrase "the N-word". Go watch Louis CK's bit about it.)
Well, if he were actually talking about how a guy in a cast is throwing, then yeah, that's a little beyond the realm of Gardy's usual random, crazy spouting from the mouth.
But when rebuilding, it's important to start by focusing on the most important building blocks. You know, like the third catcher that 95% of teams don't carry in the first place.