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The move was widely panned because it was 2 top 30 prospects for a pitcher coming off their best season ever (and really was only under contract for 1 more year from the Mets point of view on things. This would be paying under market value for a guy that had the worst season of their career. If the Jays believe that Cutch is a 3.5 win player as he's projected for (remember that AA was trading essentially for a guy that was a 5 win player that he said he thought would get even better) it's probably a bargain to get him for a single prospect. Comparable trade for an OF which is projected for 3.5 wins and two years left on their contract would be Upton from the Braves to the Padres for a top 50 spect (Fried) a top 100 prospect (Jace Peterson) and two top 200 prospects (Smith and other Peterson). Padres were thought to get a steal in that deal. But Upton is younger and not coming off a bad season so we'll ignore that one. 1.5 years of Cespedes (who would have been projected as much lower than Cutch) was traded for a pitcher having a Cy Young season (Lester), and then was traded again for future Cy Young award winner (Porcello) who had averaged over 2 fWAR at age 26. Finally was dealt with 1 year left on his contract for Top 50 prospect (who went on to win rookie of the year). Hunter Pence with 2.5 years left on his contract was traded for a top 75 prospect (Cosart), a top 40 prospect (Singleton), And a 17 year old prospect who was playing in low A. If Vlad is the only big piece in the deal it's about what can be expected (or lower) for two years of an OF projected around where Cutch is. It's more what do you think Cutch will be. But if Vlad Jr. wasn't a Jr. and just a really high priced international signee who had a good debut, I don't think there would be the same fight back.

And of course the Jays were locked up at catcher for the next 15 years with JPA.

Height and weight seldom ever get updated from their signing day. This is from Reyes signing (which was controversial at the time as it was exactly 1 year from the point he left the U.S. where he was born and raised).

Perception is interesting on things. Time of the Dickey for Thor trade. Jays were projected for 79 wins and Snydergaard was a top 30 prospect in baseball when they traded for three years of Dickey who was projected for 2.5 wins....and the Jays threw in a top 25 prospect in TdA. Vlad is a 17 year old borderline top 100 prospect and the Jays are projected for 84 wins and many don't want them to trade for 2 years of Cutch who is projected for 3.5 wins.

Almost as obvious as it is that Vlad is a sure shot to win multiple MVPs

Young Beedah is back...his rap game has improved. I don't like his chances of making millions pitching, and I doubt his actress wife is going to get him there so rap is the best bet.

And bringing up Cleveland previous attendance (other people not you), one has to remember that the Jake was new and a destination on it's own (in my mind the best of the parks built in that era...mind you I haven't been to Chase or Coors but I like the Jake better than Camden and whatever the f*** the White Sox field is called). They sold that place out for 7 years. Plus they have cut 8,000 seats from the Jake since then. Last year's success wouldn't necessarily affect tickets last year as they were so comfortably out front down the stretch. I'd expect a modest jump this season. Certainly not top 10 though.

so Kluber.

Nope, I think 2017 is the year that archaic baseball views return to this board. An RJF endorsement is perfect.

From AJ Sports Cards the following run on sentence statement

We usually do a bold predictions thread in February....or at least in my head we do. I remember in 2014 I predicted the Jays would win 40 of their first 70 and then 40 of the next 92. I was close.

I lol'd at all my own comments. Thanks for doing this King. Time to hit Twitter and tag some Jays

j4l19?

What the f***...you missed me. I wrote a full essay on every pick

Wait until Stroman retweets his position in the BJMB Hottest Jays contest in comparison to Sanchez...then s*** is going to get real.

While I think her best work is with The Fugees I don't think quoting a Lauryn Hill lyrics constitutes stupid s***. Stupid s*** is the idiots who read this as an issue with Sanchez.

It's a good tournament. The U20 Basketball is also a good tournament, it doesn't get overhyped in the U.S (or hyped at all). Honestly it's purely the hype machine at TSN that annoys me about this tourney. The rest of the world barely does care about this tourney, but Canada (via TSN) makes it seem like it's the biggest annual international tourney out there. It's just u20 hockey and there still are only 5 teams in the tourney that are truly competing for gold.

Quick to the defense of Sanchez on this board. Always blame the black guy.

All this hype over a two day tournament.

So what you are all saying is that Sanchez brought on Boras to be the bad guy for when he requests a trade.

Nothing is going my way. I blame Wok! http://i.imgur.com/gCVCZvO.png

pick a number between 1 and 100

This local BP stuff freaks me out a bit. I don't know if I like it. Nice article though. Much better than the female Toronto BP writer, although I have been trying to get her to post here.

Seth Stohs is not your friend.