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2015 Gold Gloves [Candidates Announced]
BTS replied to jaysfan2014's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Splitting the OF into three positions is dumn. -
Sometimes he forgets to sign in under his Dr. Dinger account.
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I'd do it. I wouldn't love it, but I'd do it.
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Maybe. He'll hit free agency at 33, and still has 3 arb years remaining, which should suppress his cost a bit.
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Projected to earn about 12M in arbitration this year entering his age-30 season. Is now the time to try to get him on a long-term extension? He has a clean record of health, and a skill set that should age pretty well. He'd probably be looking at 8 guaranteed years, taking him through his age-37 season. Would you go to 8/160 with him? Would he be amenable?
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I would agree with that.
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That deal is far from guaranteed to have any surplus value at all.
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Really? Surprised there was no thread.
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Have they proven to suck at drafting and development? Drafted Kipnis Lindor Chisenhall Perez Allen Anderson Tomlin Acquired as prospect Brantley Santana Gomes Kluber Carrasco Bauer McAllister signed as amateur Ramirez Salazar That's a boatload of talent developed by them that contributed meaningfully to their 2015 roster.
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The key is to pick your spots. St. Louis doesn't rely on the market, but did go to it to buy Holliday and Peralta. AA actually did a really nice job too, making calculated splashes on Martin and Cabrera. A healthy aversion to paying free agent price tags is a positive thing as long as there's enough flexibility to jump on the odd big-money deal that makes sense.
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I'm really looking forward to information on payroll. Would Shapiro have come here without an indication that he'd have better support than he did in Cleveland? I doubt it.
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He'll probably just pluck Cleveland's version of Tinnish, whoever that might be.
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I get this impression too. This is Shapiro's show, and I think it will be an inexperienced hire who will have very little autonomy.
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I can't believe how awesome it is to go from that clown Beeston to a guy who talks intelligently about the market value of a win. If payroll hovers around the top-10 the Jays could become a perennially competitive team.
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There were ways around that. Spending on posting international talent, for example. Moving assets for free agent contracts was a terrible strategy.
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It would be absolutely shocking if an offer is made to Price.
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I am?
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I defended the Melky signing after the abysmal first year too. There's a huge, huge difference between signing players to free agent contracts and trading legit assets for players on free agent contracts. If Josh Johnson were signed to a 1/14 deal and fell apart I would have had zero problem with the decision. I would have also had zero problem with Buehrle being signed as a free agent.
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The Ryan signing and his draft record were both awful, granted.
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Exactly.
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Hard to blame him for either though. Both fell off a cliff as soon as they signed.
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Winning in a loaded AL East with no second wildcard and an uncompetitive payroll was a ridiculous task. Him and AA worked in two very different contexts.
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Ricciardi was a good GM. You were like 5 when he left.
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Almost every player on Clevelands's roster was either drafted or acquired as a prospect. What killed him was that Cleveland's payroll hasn't left the bottom-10 in 13 years, and often sat bottom-5. He was basically given Friedman's TB mandate. If Rogers is going to have payroll in the bottom-5, he's probably not going to be very successful. But AA wouldn't have been able to function in that context either.
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Rentals in general are inefficient wastes of assets.
