so hudson for 20, jackson for 60

is jackson 3 times better than hudson?

I say he’ better than edwin but you may disagree. ok, let’s say they’re of equal pitching value

well, hudson would’ve been ours until the end of 2015:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ARI/2011-roster.shtml#payroll
say he gets $500k for each of his first 3 years and then $4/6/8 for his 3 arbitration years. total $19.5 million, say $20 million

edwin gets $8 million last year and this and hits free agency. to keep him he wants say 4×14. that’s $56 mil. 56 plus 16 is 72

hmmm, 20 for hudson or 72 for jackson

hmmm, that’s a rather easy decision…