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The Blue Jays Have Been Employing People To Fill The Positions On Their Major League Baseball Team

Look at this Fangraphs article title: The Phillies Have Been Putting Together an Infield With a Bunch of Pieces lol, okay?

Chance Adams DFA'd by the Yanks. He was a really interesting sleeper arm a couple of years ago but it hasn't worked in MLB or in AAA the last two years. Kind of reminds me of SRF. Pretty sure he has an option. Has never really been given the chance to just be a reliever other than the 20 innings in the MLB in 2019. I'd take him in the pen over some of the current dudes with options.

* Face of MLB

love u carlos

Bizarre victim-narrative post here. The top FA on your wishlist turns out to be your property and you are asking for "remedies" for that? fuuuuuuuuucking pussy

Well Yamaguchi and Ryu are from different countries here is a quesiton for you are you a f***ing racist?

Interesting note from an article on him. Japanese baseball officials declined to give out the Sawamura Award for the league's top pitcher this year -- no pitcher was deemed worthy of the award Imagine if everybody was so mediocre that MLB just decided not to give out the Cy Young? They honestly should!

So he's Masahiro Tanaka but drunker. Me likey

Yeah it's a good risk. They have the payroll space to take the risk. If he's good and healthy they could trade him at the deadline and elite relievers tend to get good returns. If he likes Toronto and he's good and healthy maybe he sticks around. I wonder if he would sign a deal that guaranteed him 1/$10M if it comes with a team option for year two.

*decent Hall c'mon Spanky

Yeah. Or the question is maybe what is the public not understanding about Clase's projected value AND/OR Kluber's correct projections? I hate all of this "bad for baseball" s***. A team doesn't want to spend a lot of money and it's always "bad for baseball". It's a wonderful irony that all of the left wing baseball twitter pinkos basically hate the poor teams.

The added info on the Kluber trade hints at what it might have taken Toronto to land him. Cleveland basically views Clase as a top 100 prospect. Seems like they would have asked for something like Groshans + I dunno, Zeuch or SRF or Pardinho or Thornton, who knows.

That’s so bad that you have to assume Kluber’s medicals are not good

jesus christ #thoughtsandprayers for your parents, man

That's a terrible route. Price is owed like 3/$96 and is over 34 years old. JBJ is a free agent after 2020 IIRC. Does not make any sense whatsoever and would nothing but be a desperation move. I don't see any reasonable way that the trade balances out and makes sense vs. just signing Ryu or Keuchel

If getting Ryu entails an $80M+ investment then I would more than happy with Toronto turning their focus to Keuchel. Keuchel has not been getting a lot of focus in Blue Jays land because the need is a top of the rotation starter and Dallas Keuchel ostensibly seems to be trending towards a mid-rotation option, or worse. He is almost 32, averaged about 88mph on the fastball last year, and he had a 4.72 FIP. Based on the negatives MLBTR said in their Ryu article today that their initial prediction of a 3/$39M contract for Keuchel still seems reasonable. That's a stone's throw from tacking one extra year onto the Tanner Roark contract. But I think there is some under the radar value with Keuchel. He has averaged 89.1mph in his career so his 88.4mph mean in 2019 was not far off his normal - he just was not able to reach back for the 90mph+ as often. The late start and abnormal spring might have had something to do with it. Keuchel's K and BB numbers in 2019 were generally in line with his career marks. He still had an ERA under 4 and on his bWAR was a healthy 2.1 in his 112.2 IP. His DRA on BP was a decent 4.25, good for 1.9 WARP in his abbreviated season. So if he had have pitched a full season with his rate stats he would have approached or surpassed 3 wins by any measure other than fWAR. He's a year younger than Ryu. He offers the promise and potential of stability that Ryu lacks. Yeah, there is less upside - Ryu is coming off a 5 WAR season and that upside is palpable for him and very likely not part of Keuchel's package anymore. Remember that Toronto's main goal is rotation stabilization, it's not exactly to add a playoff Ace. Even if Keuchel is a #3/4 for the rest of his career, if he could reliably be that for the duration of his contract then he'd be a great signing, and in 2019 he could be the veteran leader the pitching staff needs. Toronto traded for Mark Beuhrle before his age 34 season and I think we can all agree Buehrle's 3 years with the organization were excellent. If we think about a 3 or 4 year contract for Keuchel it's not hard to envision him being the grizzled veteran lefty that stabilizes the 2021 or 2022 rotation as this young core finally blossoms into a playoff team. The new Bark Meuhrle.

looks the same which is fine - his body is not going to transform - but maybe he is shedding some of the flab and tightening everything up.

It seems like that's what it will take though. Nearly every top FA is getting one more year and/or a higher AAV than predicted. People thought Ryu might get 3 years with an AAV of 16M or 17M - it might take four years and closer to 20M. Five years would be batshit. A $25M AAV is batshit. But 4/$80 might be what he gets. Or we might see something approaching the Arrieta contract - high AAV on a 3 year pact.

That's possible but quite optimistic. There's a decent chance that some of these guys suck in 2020. I could see Roark, Anderson, and Thornton all getting murdered. Shoemaker could barely pitch.

It was 97 innings with a horrendous K/BB. He also missed basically all of 2019 so even if he is good the kid could use some time in AAA to get back in form. Relax, Carlos.

He'd be their 6th SP. He has an option. He'd probably start ~25 MLB games if he's healthy. Do you know how baseball works?

Andrew "Chicken" Tendis has huge upside though. Kid is 25 - he could have multiple 6 WAR years; he already has a 4.4 WAR year on his resume while only poking 16 home runs. I can't see Boston ever moving him to save salary.

Meh. That's just a convenient narrative. From what I've read it's more or less impossible to tell who will be a capable NHL goalie. Was riding with Garret Sparks or Michel Hutchinson an unreasonable decision? I doubt it