About the giveaways. Though Jackson was Povse and Whalen, so we'll see. I guess I skipped that pair in my list as well. I'm not here to quibble though, there's at least a few more items shipped with no return and acquisitions that didn't pan out (like Martin, Dyson and Aoki, who were mostly well liked by the masses at the time). Then there's Go'yur'dough. Miller and several guys left exposed to waivers were mostly panned immediately.
With so many castoffs there's bound to be ones that haunt you. Hopefully there's more steals than drops in hindsight.
Segura would have gotten more than 70 million if he were a free agent. He wasn't free but significantly reduced. 8 WAR between the last 2 years at middle infield. Or 8.7 per B-Ref, with missing 30 some games in '17. And this would instead be his last year under contract, if it's in the 3+ WAR region again there's Francisco Lindor, Corey Seager, Carlos Correa, Xander Bogaerts, Brandon Crawford, Andrelton Simmons at SS with 11 WAR or more the last 3 years at SS. Altuve, Dozier, Ramirez, Murphy, Kinsler and Cano at 2b. What is that level of production worth? He was hitting .341 when he first went down this year. Also there's that 6th year team option that could bring the total to $87 million. How much of his $6.2 million 2017 contract was he worth in 125 games? That would actually make it a max of $93.2 million for 8 years. No trade clause in place.