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If you call heads and the coin lands on heads, it's not f***ing foresight, Jim. Similarly, just because the outcome was worst case Ontario does not mean the risk was significant or the negative outcome was highly probable.

David Paulino feels like a lynch-pin piece for the Blue Jays in 2020. Kind of need a couple of players exactly like him to become core pieces to have any chance at competition.

If you think above avg regular is his realistic ceiling (say, 75th percentile outcome) then what the heck is his upper ceiling? You think he could possibly be a STAR? There are a bunch of holes in his game.

Is the "even casuals weren't expecting us to complete" part supposed to make that opinion more legitimate? People defend the FO because the vast majority of criticisms are vapid and idiotic. I don't even think there is an obvious straw man in what I said. If anything, you're the one(s) constructing a straw dude because you're transforming a complicated decision based on probabilities and chance into a binary one, after the outcome is known, with obvious risks where the FO made some type of categorically and objectively incorrect historic decision, which is just not the case. How do you know they didn't test the waters only to find out that the market for him wasn't very strong? See: I'm not ecstatic with the eventual return for JD but I'm also not going to piss on my favourite team for taking a chance and making a semi-reasonable effort to complete for a wild card spot--it just didn't work out. A lot of s*** went very wrong for the MLB team this year but we could have reasonably expected a lot of the core players to be better and for the team to at least have played meaningful baseball this month. At least they could get a top 10 pick out of this dumpster season.

They really do need one bankable 200 IP rubber arm - just to protect what will probably be a young and injury prone staff. That ^ plus another depth arm would be the bare minimum. Otherwise you'll just see guys like Biagini and Mark Leiter Jr. making way too many starts and blowing out their swellbows.

Yeah Toronto could maybe project to be competitive in 2 or 3 years so a mid-term deal or two for relatively young veterans might make sense.

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In theory Donaldson should have been worth about the same in the 2018 offseason as he should have been worth at the 2018 deadline. Nobody could have predicted the extent of his injury issues this season. The "Shatkins should of traded him last offseason!" crowd are really blowing the realistic/projectable injury risk out of proportion. Toronto took on a bit of extra risk by holding him into 2018 but nobody could have reasonably foreseen that his trade value would plummet by 90% due to chronic veganism. So f*** right off with your trash hindsight opinions. Toronto got extremely unlucky and worked hard to make the best out of a s*** situation. And the massive irony in all of this is that the complainers are also largely the exact same people who will complain when the FO doesn't make a big offseason acquisition to try to compete in the short team--which is more or less the decision they made when they chose to keep JD into 2018.

All I know is his TJS was March 9, 2018. I'm assuming he won't be ready at the start of the year but will probably be in rehab mode at some point during ST.

Merryweather's ratios and xFIP are pretty strong and always have been. He essentially had a bad ERA in 2017 - poor performance! I must have missed the part where Sam Gaviglio suddenly throws mid 90s, t97 The only valid criticism is the recent TJS, which obviously does cut his value down.

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Merryweather is probably worth a heck of a lot more than a compensation pick, if he returns to pre-injury form.

Votto + Donaldson + McCutchen went from 97 combined HR in 2017 to 29 so far this year.

If anybody wants to get some early conversations going, this offseason I will likely be shopping: Votto Brantley McCutchen Arrieta Donaldson? Price etc. basically everything that isn't tied down or under 30

Mastro 2012!

Gurriel blows. Probably a below average hitter who can't even play a good shortstop. I think he does enough to be a useful bench player but that also kind of looks like his realistic ceiling for me. He'll have to find some patience or find some power or find some defense to be a regular, for me. He's like an early career Yuni Betancourt

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Some people think Dominic Abbadessa is a guy to watch too.

hmmmm

Bu-bu-bu-BUMP!

Atkins called the player a “near term prospect” and Cody Anderson has like 2 years of service. The description doesn’t really fit

Merryweather would be good. Smells kind of like Mike Clevinger.

Nice to see that blue-collar grinder Chris Getz has gone to the management dark side and is now shilling for service time manipulating corporate cronies. Imagine clawing your whole career for service time and the league minimum, and then when you retire just betraying your brothers and union and outright lying about how ready Eloy Jimenez is for the majors so that the ownership side of baseball can get even fatter.

Right. I just find it bizarre that every potential suitor in a playoff push - where marginal wins are worth many, many millions of dollars - would be turned off by $4M in a sport where teams routinely pay that much amateurs and bench players. But that does explain why he wouldn't be blocked by teams that just can't accommodate him at all on the roster.

STL is rumoured to be interested. Any team competing with them for the WC would theoretically have nothing to lose and something to gain if they claimed him just to block STL. And they wouldn't be under any obligation to actually work out a deal and absorb the player or the salary. It's just obvious that we (I) do not have some piece of key information about the process. The claiming team must have some sort of obligation.