If you pass on established talent like EE and JB and get younger, up and coming replacements...that's one strategy.  But if you let Grade A Playoff level talent like EE & JB walk and just pocket the savings, that's another, Doing it cheap will be mirrored by your fan base.  We too will pocket our money and let this mediocrity play on TV for free.   The Jays had ten lost years following this path in the Godfrey years.   It doesn't pay.  Good luck.