Augie Ojeda is under guaranteed contract? For actual US dollars? And they expect to be able to trade him?

Jose should have taken the Astros arbitration offer. Am not sure which team will offer him more than he would've made in arb.
That being said, he'd still be way too expensive for the Dbacks - who should be spending money on their offense anyhow...

Question: who'll get a bigger contract this winter: Jose Valverde or Mike Gonzalez?

Augie avoided arbitration by agreeing to one year, $825,000 deal. Which is pretty reasonable, unless you are a Cubs fan holding a grudge against him. He's a plus defender at 2b and ss and brings his lunch bucket to work every day. If you believe fangraphs, he was way more valuable last year than Cora or McDonald, yet he's making pennies compared to those guys. There really isn't anything wrong with having Augie as the futility infielder on your team - and in fact, he supposedly generated pretty decent trade interest during the winter meetings.