General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2023)

[Eat My Shatkins]

What offer?

 

 

The Toronto Blue Jays were among the teams who tried to sign free-agent shortstop Xander Bogaerts, according to his agent, Scott Boras. Boras told USA Today that the Blue Jays were among the clubs eventually outbid as the former Boston Red Sox star signed an 11-year, $280 million contract with the San Diego Padres.

 

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[Terminator]

They run a six man rotation now don't they?

 

And that depth is all rookies or Tucker Davidson

 

No bueno

 

Plenty of teams can't even fill out the 1-5 very well. So they've got that. Silseth is pretty good too, at least he projects to be. Then they've got a handfull of AAA guys in the right age group who project right on the edge of being decent big league starters.

 

Zips thinks they'll put up the 9th most WAR among SP which is higher than us. For whatever that is worth.

[John_Havok]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/02/blue-jays-sign-luke-bard-to-minors-contract.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

 

Jays sign reliever Luke Bard to minor league deal, invite to ST

[Deadpool]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/02/blue-jays-sign-luke-bard-to-minors-contract.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

 

Jays sign reliever Luke Bard to minor league deal, invite to ST

 

Love me some minor league signings, and this one seems to have a bit of potential if that article is to be believed.

[G-Snarls]

Love me some minor league signings, and this one seems to have a bit of potential if that article is to be believed.

 

It's for real:

 

[Deadpool]

It's for real:

 

 

I meant that the article had some effusive praise for Bard, not that I doubted the signing

[Ehjays]

[43211234]

Not exactly related to the 2023 Blue Jays but I thought it was a cool photo

 

 

[Ehjays]

Not exactly related to the 2023 Blue Jays but I thought it was a cool photo

 

 

 

Wow great shot, guess someone should ask if she is still alive lol

[jerb]

[Sorrow]

Ryu looks good, looks like he's leaned out a little bit.

[jerb]

[Jonn]

 

George Springer walking the other day at Bo’s charity event

[John_Havok]

 

George Springer walking the other day at Bo’s charity event

 

He looked fine in the Hazel Mae vid above heading to the batting cages this morning.

[Jimcanuck]

Just a lil' gangsta hitch

[jerb]

[John_Havok]

High respect for KK getting put in that group.

[Captain_Obvious]

The biggest mistake made this off season was not extending Danny Jansen.

[John_Havok]

The biggest mistake made this off season was not extending Danny Jansen.

 

There's still plenty of time for that. Catchers are not typically the guys you want to extend for big years and money anyways.

[Terminator]

 

WTF someone get a helmet on this guy! Does he have a death wish??

[Jimcanuck]

There's still plenty of time for that. Catchers are not typically the guys you want to extend for big years and money anyways.

 

Would not be big years and money for Jansen though

[Jimcanuck]

WTF someone get a helmet on this guy! Does he have a death wish??

 

You would think the Jays would be smart to require it. Or maybe OHS laws are lax in Florida.

[John_Havok]

WTF someone get a helmet on this guy! Does he have a death wish??

 

He's got a glove on to catch anything that might hit him... no biggie.

[Terminator]

 

Jays 2023 St. Patrick's Day Spring Training Hat

 

I like the color scheme but I think some of the other teams are better as they went with special logos.

[wilko]

There's still plenty of time for that. Catchers are not typically the guys you want to extend for big years and money anyways.

 

Unless you're this guy.

 

[John_Havok]

Unless you're this guy.

 

 

Definitely atypical.

[John_Havok]

 

Jays 2023 St. Patrick's Day Spring Training Hat

 

I like the color scheme but I think some of the other teams are better as they went with special logos.

 

That's vomit inducing IMO.

[Captain_Obvious]

Would not be big years and money for Jansen though

 

Yea. This is the point. He is very likely to get more expensive and quickly as time goes by.

[John_Havok]

Yea. This is the point. He is very likely to get more expensive and quickly as time goes by.

 

I guess Jansen is stuck in the middle of several scenarios that probably make him not all that extension worthy at the moment.

 

#1. Injury history

#2. Kirk is friggin awesome, cheaper and under more control already

#3. Trying to extend Vlad and/or Manoah would be higher priority

 

I think IF the jays were to approach Jansen, they'd probably want to line up his last year to be the same as Kirk's current last year of control which is the end of 2026. That would be buying 2 FA years after his 2024 Arb 3.

 

so,,, 3 years/32 million ish? call it 7 million for 2024 arb 3 and then 12.5M for 2 more years?

 

 

Murphy got 15m for his FA years, but I think Murphy might be a bit higher on the catcher tree than Jansen. Maybe not. 3 years 37?

[43211234]

Vlad looks huge lol

 

 

I think the ship has to have sailed now in regards to him slimming down.