I think I disagree. When we traded Reyes he was a 32 year old SS with 2.3 years left on a deal paying him 55 million(22+22+4 mil buyout + 7 mil pro-rated for end of 2015). He was a 1 fWAR player to that point in the year. 3.5 the prior year, 2.2 the year before that. Tulo is a 33 year old SS with 3 years left at 58 million(20+20+14+4 mil buyout), was a 0 fWAR player last year. 2.9 and 2.4 the 2 years prior.
If you don't believe that this Tulo is the real Tulo then I guess you hope it's better, but he hasn't been vintage Tulo for 3 years now. What we see is probably what we get unfortunately, and it's probably worse than what we had left with Reyes who was younger, owed less money for less time, and had better results leading up to that point.
I really don't want to believe that we're to that point yet, but we might be.
I was referring to the off field thing and maybe im wrong. They likely would've just released him and went with a Goins type until they found a decent replacement in free agency.I think he was referring to the off-field stuff with Reyes.
But at face value, the PR mess of dealing with off field abuse is an excruciating headache to the management and the fans.