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Tatis is a 5-6 win player, will be only 27 in two months, and has 9 years and $292M left on his deal Extending Vlad (same age as Tatis) took a significantly higher commitment Kyle Tucker is two years older, a bit worse right now (~4.5 WAR talent), less tooled up, and will require a contract equal to or greater than what Tatis is owed presently I would easily give up some choice prospects for Tatis.

The Jays did a really good job in 2025 of cycling through their AAAA guys and finding the MLB talent. Wagner and Roden both made the roster but ended up not helping and they were leapfrogged by everyone else. Schreck, Pinango, Leo Jimenez, and Kasevich are all in good positions to get a chance if there are injuries or flops ahead of them

John Schneider did not win Manager of the year. Jays get completely hosed and ripped off in awards season. Robbed of this and multiple Gold Gloves. I can't understand

Yeah, I think the ideal scenario is to retain Bo on a contract that doesn't seem too bad. Some kind of 7 year thing. And then add more. Tucker is better but it's going to be a 10 year deal with a higher AAV, perhaps a much higher AAV in the post-Soto, post-Vlad, post-Ohtani contract landscape. There is a scenario here where Tucker is a $350M+ contract and Bo doesn't even get $200M. I mean, multiple genius pundits don't even consider Bo to be a top 6 free agent. So Bo might be both a market inefficiency and a chance at a little sweetheart deal.

For... crime?

Straw remains untradable Replacement level projection

Reddit lied!

Apparently Bellinger's wife just posted a CN Tower pic on insta

My only real criticism of JS from the playoffs is that he fell into some small sample size fallacies with relievers Absolutely fell in love with Chris Bassitt who then gave up a consequential run in WS G7 Fell in love with Hoffman as the de facto closer because of some postseason innings, even after his massively sucky regular season, and guess who blew WS G7? Abandoned Little after one bad outing There was a better way to manage WS G7 and it was probably trusting Trey Yesavage for the last 9 outs. Maybe Fluharty if you had to get Ohtani in the 9th.

A bit weird to me that the Cubes would decline 3/$57M for Imanaga but then qualify him for $22M Trying to thread the needle Shouldn't he just take that QO?

Kyle Tucker is a corner outfielder who needed a personal therapist and stuffed animal subscription in order to survive ONE season with the Cubs, and you are going to give him $420M but you won't give Bo Bichette $150M when he's basically the same level of talent by WAR, an entire year younger, and a freaking middle infielder with a laboratory grade baseball psyche? This is why you don't work in baseball anymore, Kiley!!!! You have a girly first name, KILEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These guys are actually on crack They'll beat their meat to "hit tools" until that's the carrying tool of an actual MLB Star then they don't care anymore Treating Bo like he's Javy f***ing Baez up there hacking with a 33% K rate before free agency...

Only way Bo leaves is if some other team blows Toronto's offer out of the water. Like, $50M more. It might happen but I doubt it. Toronto will make him a reasonable offer to be their 2B for the next 7 years and he will take it.

Just sign a Chris Bassitt (or equivalent) then if the team is clicking again trade for the Cease type at the deadline? This is the luxury Toronto has after Bieber opted in and Yesavage had his breakout. 1-3 are accounted for. Don't need to be desperate to sign an SP2.

Sometimes awkward problems just take care of themselves!

Easiest extension decision ever Thank god they didn't fire him after 2024

A lot of pundits say that Bo will not age well because of his defense, athleticism, and approach. This is the easy and obvious argument. The low hanging fruit. What they FAIL to appreciate is the possibility that he becomes a slow fat 35 home run hitter when he gets older. I mean the dude hit a 442 foot tank to dead centre in the World Series - with some gradual approach changes and simply turning on the ball a bit more this is a dude who could hit a lot of homers and then you don't care as much about whether the singles keep falling in. And also the possibility that he's a very good 2B or 3B. What if 33 year old Bobichette is a 30 HR hitting +5 OAA third baseman? Adrian Beltre swung a lot!!! Being able to hit the ball + being able to play up the middle defense ---- these are pure baseball skills. I think sometimes in the nerd/saber analysis of players and what they are worth or how they will age or what they may be worth, people lose sigh of the forest for the trees. They'll want to value or give money to guys who walk and pull balls in the air etc. and it's just not always that easy. Like, look at how Trea Turner has done so far. Guy was a swing happy speedster with minus SS defense at 27 years old.

Bo Bichette extended!

I think criticism of IKF's slide is not really fair If you watch it in real time he didn't slow down at all to slide. It was more of a foot first lunge, if that makes much sense. Not sure sprinting through the plate helps at all.

It is basically the Vlad situation Would be sad for Detroit to get here as a franchise and then not extend him. They should and probably will pay him whatever he wants, eventually. $400M pitcher contract or something insane.

Why do you keep lumping Zac Berrios in with a bunch of frontline pitchers? Projected WAR Cease 3.7 Valdez 3.7 Suarez 3.3 Woodruff 2.9 King 2.8 Kelly 2.5 Gallen 2.3 Bassitt 2.1 Eflin 2.0 Littell 1.7 Verlander 1.6 May, Mahle 1.5 Scherzer 1.4 Literally just sign Chris Bassitt back if you think the team needs SP5 slop and one more poo chucker

11 hitters with 2+ WAR projected lol probably the most in baseball!

Nothing!

How does this man write for Fangraphs

This list is [redacted] Buddy literally puts Pete Alonso 7th with a 2.6 WAR projection and $120M contract estimate above Bo Bichette with a 3.9 WAR projection and $200M contract estimate This is not a list of the top 50 free agents in any functional order It's not ordered by contract estimate, or talent. It's not even ordered by surplus value. It's ordered by.... Ben Clemens' preference for player X on contract Y? It's not even his guess at surplus value, because there is no such analysis. Just same vague, hand-wavy shot in the dark stuff.