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For me, I think Billy needs to do better than 2012. Keeping him means we give up on the chance to bat Salvy when he's not catching. Teams who don't have a catcher who can hit wouldn't care as much, but our catcher happens to be one of our best hitters, so freeing up the DH spot is worth a lot to us.

I think Billy would need to explode this year and become a 4-WAR player and an obvious all-star before I begin to think bringing him back for 12.5 in 2015 is a good idea.