School of Thought 1: we should have signed a stud pitcher. I think stud FA pitchers are a bad long-term deal more often than not, and this is a club that needs to think long-term. Signing a really good shortstop, had there been any available, would have been a great plan by me. Or someone to play third base. School of Thought 2: the Twins should have signed more pitchers to give themselves a better chance. I can see the logic here; if you pay 4 guys $2.5 million each and you keep 2 of them, you are getting the 2 best ones for $5 million per, in effect. The problem there is you are basically talking about FAs who are hoping for a bounce-back year to a big contract, and they need innings to prove themselves. The Twins don't have many pitchers that were expected to be good, but they do have a lot of bodies that at least could be adequate. If you were a guy who needed to count on 175 IP this year, would you want to be one of 4 projects competing for 2 spots? I'd rather go to a team that was able to basically promise me a rotation spot (barring complete disaster). You can disagree about who we signed, but I don't think the team could have signed more of them very easily, other than guys like Harden or Perez who will need to wait until later in the season anyway.