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[KillerLeft]

Although, if that is the case you have your decision that you were not going to resign Grimes.

I agree with your post - it's quite reasonable. 

But, I think it's important to remind ourselves that they DID want to keep Grimes, and in fact offered him a deal. He turned it down, and they apparently didn't see eye to eye with him about either his perceived self-worth, contractually, his role or (probably) both (higher salaries and offensive responsibility tend to go hand in hand). 

I don't know that this is a distinction that will change anyone's mind about that deal, but it does seem like they had a carefully considered idea of what he was worth to them, and that wasn't "nothing." It just wasn't a fit here.