They don't -now-. This was mostly a response to BSF wanting to bring up Betts again. Which included dumping Price's contract as part of it.
And purely, I think, I'm just -sick- of the notion that 'this front office can take risks' because my feeling boils down to that 2018 was a huge chunk of 'risks' all paying off, and then the bill came due, and people -did not- like paying the bills, a large chunk of which was because they had no prospective cheap talent coming out. In lots of ways, that 2018 team was basically the epitome of 'Fuck them prospects, fuck the luxury taxes, let's go for it now'.
I think in lots of ways, the ownership made one mistake back in 2017-2018, and that was letting Dombrowski build a -go-for-it-now approach to free agency instead of insisting Dombrowski take care of Betts/Devers/Xander first before going for the free agents.
So I really, I don't think I want to see a 'big free agent contract' being offered now, as much as I want to see something more like "Give Mayer and Teel those big contracts' and start with the Atlanta Braves approach. Get the young core locked in before bringing in the big FA contracts.