They've done a better job of piecing the system together over the last few years. That's not all Hahn/Williams' doing, as the stench of the Wilder scandal seems to finally be passing, but they have drafted better and made some small moves more successfully.

The reason I bring that up is that I actually think they could sell some stuff off (Shields looked like garbage, but they can get a real part or two for him) and still put a good enough team on the field to support Sale/Quintana and, in a year or two, Rodon.

But they could also go really big and sell everything. But the Central still looks open to me in, say, two years. Jumping right to the back of the line when you have one of the best 1/2 rotation punches in the league in their prime and pretty cheap for the next 2-3 years seems like a mistake.