Too Much Relief Pitching?

It's 1 million dollars entered for 5 years. Peter Gammons , whose bona fides as a Boston partisan attain been adequately proven elsewhere, claims the Angels are cooking up a 6-way deal that "would put Jermaine Dye in Cincinnati, Joey Votto in Anaheim and Chone Figgins in Chicago." Is it a fallback plan? Is it a tacit admission the Angels don't want to outbid the Sawx? Is it sadness?