I'm not sure what to make of their approach. The goal is to compete every year, and usually teams who operate like that are very risk averse - even the Dodgers are really careful about who they allocate big money to. But Toronto has made a number of high risk decisions:
- holding on to JD for 2018, largely for PR reasons and crossing their fingers that he'd maintain value at the deadline
- 80M for Ryu
- 150M for Springer
- trading for Berrios and then giving him 130M
They've been a lot more open to risk, at least on the financial side, than I think any of us expected 3-4 years ago. And I'm not sure Ross has been super great at allocating that capital.