THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

[cow]

FIFY. There is no way to know if Wood will ever produce what is needed. It's only hope, and naive desperation.

Me? I don't support paying for what I desperately hope he might one day become. I pay for what he is. There are no assurances he suddenly becomes all that, when he's never done it.

And that next contract is his incentive to put in the work, and bring the focus, to make it happen. I think the other way - paying on your desperation, rather than on his proven ability - is naively putting the cart before the horse, and is a GM approach that inevitably leads to an impossible payroll with a bunch of bloated contracts and not enough money to pay for enough talent.

Pretty much.  If he signs his extension tomorrow, I'm cool with it.  Anything beyond that or more expensive than that and it just feels too risky.