You gotta roll the dice. To put this in perspective consider these activities in another way. We have gotten less than other teams from the draft, for some reason. These buy-cheap guys are sort of like we are drafting guys in the 4th to 12th round who got by the first two years of professional ball- so they are the 20% survivors of one or two years of drafts of the 4 -12 picks. We haven't had to pay their bonuses or the bonuses and salaries of the guys who didn't make it that far- so we win with the cash consideration. They were on some sort of trajectory to AAA or AAAA or the bigs, but ran into some problem. If the coaches could find a fix with some tinkiering, we may get 3 out of 10 guys who can help us. Nearly for free. DO IT. Remember that guy who is pitching for the Cubs?