Blue Jays Sign Jose Bautista

[BTS]

I really doubt it. When Smoak was extended the team probably viewed the extension in part as an insurance policy. I don't think they would avoid making an upgrade because Smoak has a $4M contract

 

I guess it depends on how firm that rumoured 5M in budget space is. 9-10M gets them a pretty good upgrade in the OF or 1B, but 5M probably doesn't.

[AdamGreenwood]

Is a Jose Reyes trade a crazy idea? Stick him in LF/RF and lead-off for ya? Cost would be minimal and the Mets have to shed salary.

 

He has no interesting in leaving the Mets. And after Toronto ran Escobar out of town after his forced apology tour, I doubt anyone with a checkered past would consider Toronto. I mean, our announcers can't even say the word 'Indians' here, so how are we gonna deal with someone accused of spousal abuse?

[G-Snarls]

Could Shartkins trade Smoak for a backup catcher, as a salary dump type move?

 

Absolutely

 

Some team with 3 mediocre catchers might bite

 

Thank f*** we don't have to worry about having g someone to catch Dickey anymore

[G-Snarls]

Trade Smoak and a prospect 4 D'Arnaud

 

[Gary]

Absolutely

 

Some team with 3 mediocre catchers might bite

 

Thank f*** we don't have to worry about having g someone to catch Dickey anymore

Any teams that might be potential trade partners?

[Ehjays]

After signing Bautista, Davidi said it would probably leave the Jays with $5MM left from their expected $160M budget to fill out a LH reliever, backup catcher. I don't think we're getting Michael Saunders or a LH bat for that matter.

 

I thought I read that our budget could be 165....

[Governator]

After Navarro's season, surely he'd be avail for dirt cheap? Not sure if he's a fit anymore but Steamer still likes him.

[BTS]

After Navarro's season, surely he'd be avail for dirt cheap? Not sure if he's a fit anymore but Steamer still likes him.

 

Please god no

[glory]

After Navarro's season, surely he'd be avail for dirt cheap? Not sure if he's a fit anymore but Steamer still likes him.

 

No. Just no. f*** no.

[Governator]

LOL

 

 

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[RealAccountant]

I would be fine with rolling with bj Upton in LF

[Governator]

I'd be fine with Pompey in the OF over any of them and Pearce or Bats at 1B. f*** Smoak.

[glory]

Carrera is on the team and Gibby loves him. He'll be starting in LF.

 

Just typing that out disgusted me, but I know it's going to happen, so preparing for it now.

[G-Snarls]

No. Just no. f*** no.

 

Not handsome enough, I know

 

BOOM

 

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[Dick_Pole]

This off-season is turning out well. I think we were all resigned to getting one of the two big bats back. None of us expected the team to commit to less than $50M in doing so.

 

The crybabies crying over this off-season can think of it this way. The way the FO has played the hand it was dealt over the past couple of months significantly increases the chance that the team can extend Donaldson. Whether they want to do that or not is another story. But the ability to do so has gone way up. Fielding a competitive team with far less money committed than expected.

[Dick_Pole]

Is a Jose Reyes trade a crazy idea? Stick him in LF/RF and lead-off for ya? Cost would be minimal and the Mets have to shed salary.

 

Glad to see that your crazy is spreading to areas outside of UFO theories posted to people's PMs.

[Inklink]

After Navarro's season, surely he'd be avail for dirt cheap? Not sure if he's a fit anymore but Steamer still likes him.

 

Is Steamer a restaurant?

[Maahfaace]

This line-up as constructed (with Bats) has a very realistic shot at outperforming last years lineup with the sticks.

[HERPDERP]

This line-up as constructed (with Bats) has a very realistic shot at outperforming last years lineup with the sticks.

 

I find it hard pressed to replace Edwin's production and Saunders' good 1st half

[G-Snarls]

I find it hard pressed to replace Edwin's production and Saunders' good 1st half

 

We can remove Goins full time suckage and (hopefully) Martin's atrocious start too though

[G-Snarls]

No doubt we will miss Edwin's unbelievably steady presence in the lineup though, yes

[KingKat]

Glad to see that your crazy is spreading to areas outside of UFO theories posted to people's PMs.

 

I'll let him get a reply in if he wants but after that this topic should be dropped from the main forum. I don't want to derail a discussion about real, actual Blue Jays news with this stuff. There's an OT board for that.

[Ray]

Hope Reese McGuire has a good spring training and roll with him as your backup catcher.

[burlingtonbandit]

I find it hard pressed to replace Edwin's production and Saunders' good 1st half

 

If Jose puts up Edwin's numbers and Pearce puts up Saunders numbers its not that hard to see. Tulo has some upside and if Martinis healthy his numbers should be better.

 

Health and durability is a concern for this group though. Tulo, Travis, Pearce, Martin and Bautista all have had bad injuries recently.

[Dick_Pole]

I'll let him get a reply in if he wants but after that this topic should be dropped from the main forum. I don't want to derail a discussion about real, actual Blue Jays news with this stuff. There's an OT board for that.

 

True...I just couldn't resist the bait.

[KingKat]

True...I just couldn't resist the bait.

 

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[fatcowxlive]

I don't see the holes you keep mentioning. We can all agree that a good OF/1B would be great. What other holes are there? There's backup catcher, where it's probably unrealistic to expect anyone tangibly better than Jimenez to want to play behind Martin. There's the bullpen, which already has six good arms (Osuna, Grilli, Biagini, Loup, Barnes, Sparkman). I mean, sure, a vet backup catcher and good pen arm would be nice, but neither are really necessary. And there are still two months left to add them.

 

We need an outfielder and more BP arms. We don't know how Grilli's arm is gonna hold especially after slowing down last year, and Loup hasn't proved to show that he's gotten back to at least being decent. The bullpen you mentioned is not post season calibre and we saw what a bad BP did to us last year and what a great BP does for other teams.

 

But that's why I said the off-season isn't done yet, you asked as of now and I said for what they started with it's great but are the holes all filled? No, but I don't expect them to be filled either because we literally don't have the farm resources and the FA market is s***

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Best news I've heard in a while! Amazing

[Boxcar]

We need an outfielder and more BP arms. We don't know how Grilli's arm is gonna hold especially after slowing down last year, and Loup hasn't proved to show that he's gotten back to at least being decent. The bullpen you mentioned is not post season calibre and we saw what a bad BP did to us last year and what a great BP does for other teams.

 

But that's why I said the off-season isn't done yet, you asked as of now and I said for what they started with it's great but are the holes all filled? No, but I don't expect them to be filled either because we literally don't have the farm resources and the FA market is s***

 

Got the Jays to the ALCS, that only 2 of 15 teams got to play in?

[Grant77]

I think they'll go for the best WAR/$ wherever they can get it.

 

For example, with the money you give Blevins you can probably get Valbuena, who will give you more for your money.

 

And for backup catcher it doesn't make sense to give one of the retreads 3M or something when they'll probably give you 0.5 WAR over Jimenez, or in the case of Navarro, probably even less.

 

We should have more than enough money to sign whoever we want at this point in the offseason. We're way below the stated budget.