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Does that push them over 400M if you include the tax?
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lol WTF. Were they basically just bidding against the Padres?
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They’re the same person.
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Bloom f***ed up twice here: the biggest mistake was not getting it done before last season, and the second mistake was holding him at the deadline with Boston out of contention. Once those ships sailed he was right to let him go.
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Yeah. There are real warts with Bogaerts. Dude hit 15 homeruns with a 0.323 xwOBA last year, and has always struggled on the road where he can’t pepper balls off the monster. This could be ugly almost immediately.
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Toronto isn't going to be running a 250-300M payroll this year.
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I don't expect any of those three teams to be competitive 2-3 years from now. Houston, LAD, Atlanta, St. Louis, and TB probably will be. But that's mostly beside the point, because I'm not suggesting that Toronto shouldn't have a competitive payroll. I'm saying that there are different ways of getting there - you can spread the money around and not take on the risk of a 300M contract. The Cardinals signed Willson Contreras for 5 x 17.5. If they were to also sign Ross Stripling for 3 x 36 they would have added about the same AAV as Bogaerts (actually a bit mroe) and likely improved their team more in the short term, without any of the long-term risk. You don't need to shop at the very top of the FA market to spend money, or to compete at the highest level.
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I don't really see how allocating 15-20% of their payroll to one guy and paying him until he's 41 is the solution to that problem.
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The best team in baseball over the last half decade has never spent more than 150M on a single contract, and has let George Springer, Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander, and Carlos Correa leave via free agency because they valued financial flexibility enough to not risk an albatross contract. The only mega-contract the Dodgers have given out has been to Mookie Betts, and they'd be an easy 100-win team without him. They've let Trea Turner, Max Scherzer, Zack Greinke, and Corey Seager walk via free agency. The biggest financial commitment the Cardinals have is 160M to Paul Goldschmidt. The biggest commitment the Braves have is 168M for Matt Olson, and that might have been a mistake. The idea that you need to give out 250M mega-deals to top free agents to compete is absurd. The best run teams in the game have mostly been avoiding them and letting desperate orgs with a history of poor decisions make those commitments.
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Toronto Blue Jays Roster Discussion (2022)
BTS replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yeah. They only have Vaughn Grissom, but everything I've read says he's going to land at 2B or corner OF defensively. Bichette + Jansen for RAJ. Sign Correa. The WS will be easy to win. -
Toronto Blue Jays Roster Discussion (2022)
BTS replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Ronald Acuna Jr. -
The Cards are such a good Org
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I have not enjoyed the rumours that Toronto has been a finalist on Jansen and Gibson
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It's been a remarkably terrible run: - got things started by trading future HoFer Mookie Betts for Alex Verdugo and garbage - traded Jeffrey Springs for Ronaldo Hernandez, since DFA'd - traded Hunter Renfroe for JBJ and trash, JBJ since DFA'd - traded Benintendi for trash - won't get anything for JD Martinez - won't get anything except a comp pick for Eovaldi - Bogaerts probably walking via FA - gave Trevor Story 140M even though he doesn't play SS anymore - have spent 50M on two 35+ relievers this offseason despite having a terrible lineup and rotation Under 0.500 in two of his three seasons, and probably again in 2023.
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How many teams have made worse decisions than Boston over the last few years?
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lmao
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lmao Heyman
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Imagine being a professional journalist and not proofreading a 6-word tweet.
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The Red Sox under Chaim Bloom are an organization of ineffectual losers.
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Actually that’s not a bad contract. Good signing for Texas
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Weird. Do they really need Bell and Josh Naylor?
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There is no way anyone could handle this job without 99th percentile T levels
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As soon as someone mentions Schilling on this forum, there are only 4 possible destinations for the conversation: American politics, connorp's personal life, struggles with low T, or the impact that struggles with low T has on connorp's personal life.
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