G-Snarls

Trade Smoak and a prospect 4 D'Arnaud

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

Here's how I'm looking at it: If Edwin had signed for 4/80 we obviously wouldn't have been able to retain Bautista It was always going to be one of them kept at most, not both. And maybe neither Bautista for 2 years 38M is probably a better signing than Edwin for 4 years 80M Silver linings

If Edwin had signed for 4/80 we wouldn't have been able to retain Bautista obviously It was always going to be one of them kept at most

Only a s*** team would guarantee him full time

I guess in terms of winning what matters to the team is: is the drop in quality bigger if they use someone else at SS or someone else at catcher. Ie. Who will catch now?? Realistically he's a star player and he'll get to play where he wants

Should be 90%: Morales DH Pearce RF Bautista 1B Pearce at 1B if Bautista needs days off from playing in the field

Must be a done deal Bautista prob texted all his teammates

Here we go again...

Even more so than Edwin, I would have hated to see what Bautista would do in a "revenge season" against our pitching staff if he was in Baltimore or something and pissed off at the Jays front office

A reasonable person will say those two things even out of course

Age + injured too much in 2016 + no longer an acceptable RF defender + unreasonable contract demands + draft pick comp + generally disliked player = we get him back on a nice short term deal cause no one else wanted to gamble Works for me

Sweet Confirmatory Rosenthal credibility Tweet means it's probably a done deal already Terms are perfect if that's true

Will listen and update this post with notes - Goal to get younger. Have not accomplished much of this yet. It has been an unsually slow off season for most teams Most reports in the media about potential deals are "partial truths" Lots will be done in the next 5 weeks Wants to bring young "championship caliber" players into the farm system. Farm isn't as deep as he would like. "Just a few" of those types of players in the system Edwin: Took exception to Blair asking if he would have done things differemntly with Edwin. Confirmed Jays offered "far more money" than he got from Cleveland. Could have gambled but they had no idea where Edwin's market would go. They signed Morales knowing they MIGHT still be able to sign Edwin but knowing it was less likely Need an OF Bautista is the "most talented one out there" Value in the free agent bullpen market is now terrible so they've avoided it Better value in corner OF/IF types so that's what they've signed so far Still looking at BP options though. "Yes we will add BP pieces, and it will have constant adjustment during the year" Biagni an option for SP. He will go longer outings in ST at first "because there's no downside to that" and then decide if he's needed in the BP or starting rotation after a few weeks Dumb question about trading Vlad Jr answered with platitudes Extension for Gibby being discussed That's it

Might as well have a thread Starts in 5 minutes http://player.sportsnet590.ca/

Jays aren't the only team with lots of moves left to make before the season starts

I love having Barney and Carrera available as part time/backup players.

I would also want to stay somewhere warm, where I can pitch 60-70 innings a year for 5 years and make 80 million dollars. Oh, and have a legit chance at winning a World Series while I'm at it. Seems like a decent gig

It was weird hearing AA on the radio today Discussing re Kenley Jansen signing "the player wanted to stay here which helped a lot" he said

It seems Matt Harvey might have been well suited for this too Too late now I wonder if he knew about this?? Was it considered?

Sounds like the right type of tear too. Partial tear that can be rebuilt before the whole thing ruptures and TJS is the only option

I hope so Would be great for him and the game