Agreed. I didn't like this strategy then, and I hate it now. I hated it last year, but it worked.
Why they refuse to trust the youth to be backups is beyond me. If they really don't trust their minor league system, they should resign. The system is their only hope for long term success. And, as predicted, they won't cut bait for months. At least Rocco has benched Santana.
But spending this percent of a limited payroll on guys you want to be backups is awful resource allocation.