Laika

Way too much you idiot

Is that too much? Maybe offer him a bit less but get more years? 6/$78???

Yeah, just like all the f***ing idiots who blew their load when the Marlins trade broke.

He'd sign a pillow contract to prove he's healthy.

A lot. Even if you're generous and think he still has 16 WARz left and you think a win is worth $10M, Seattle needs to kick in like 32 million to hypothetically move him for nothing.

He'd be retarded to do this, lol. But assuming he was, one way they could sort of make it appeal to him would be to have Toronto "insure" some portion of his expected contract this offseason by giving him a long term deal with an opt out after year 1. Say the market is looking like 7/$200 for Price. Offer him 7/$120 but with a large salary in year 1 and an opt out next offseason. Then if his elbow blows up in spring training he still has a decent long term deal.

Cano + $150M for Ryan Goins

Yes it would be terrible Rules to live by: 1 - never tweet 2 - don't sign a FA Ace in his 30's

Source: David Price's agent uses positive relationship with his most recent team as leverage in negotiations with small number of teams that actually want him and can afford him.

Trade all of them to save Rogers money

Screw free agents though Sign Jose Fernandez instead and sign Freeman and sign Cano

4/$60 for Tim Lincecum Then see if Blanton will sign for around $10m

maybe a physical hiccup

172 days = a full year of service time So he does have almost 2

It really doesn't matter much at all. Those contracts were between 4 and 6 years. You just wiggle the years, AAV, and option values to make the math work. Any extension that guaranteed him money in exchange for options on a couple of his FA years would be awesome.

I think so, but that doesn't really strike me as a material difference.

There are enough fairly similar comparisons to get a decent idea. Quintana and Sale. Chris Archer. Carrasco. Ventura. Most of those extensions fit the same template. 4/$22 + two $9M options 5/$23M + two $12M options 6/$25.5M + two $10M options 5/$26.5M + two $11M options 5/$32.5M + two $13M options Remarkably similar! We have a pretty good idea of what a Stroman extension should look like.

Fragility was a problem with every roster AA constructed

Meh. It's not really that hard to watch youngsters play baseball and throw somewhat arbitrary number grades on their attributes.

No. Everybody appreciated McDaniel and everybody knows that most of the good prospect guys move on from the public sector in short order

"One other difference for the way I’ll be communicating scouting grades to you is the presence of three numbers on each tool instead of just two. The first number is the current grade. The second number is the likely future grade; or, if you prefer percentiles, call this the 50th percentile projection. The third number is the ceiling grade, or 90th percentile projection, to help demonstrate the volatility and raw potential of a tool. I feel this gives readers a better sense of the possible outcomes a player could achieve, and more information to understand my thoughts on the likelihood of reaching those levels." I like him!

lol classic BTS move Trumbo, Jerko, and Gattis could all hit 20-30 HR with OBPs comfortably below .300

Dude it's November. They have until the frigging 2016 trade deadline to find a TOR pitcher

Worst qualified OF in baseball in the last two years. lol.

Teaching is a twisted profession in Ontario, man. The unions have so much leverage that they basically get everything they want. That's the inherent problem with massive unions in the public sector - money isn't really limited because the gov can always shift more to education or raise taxes. The compensation is kind of crazy, all things considered (salary + time off + benefits + sick day entitlement + other things). It's such an attractive lifestyle that people have been flocking into teacher's college by the thousands. Now, obviously, there is a huge glut of young people trying to get into the profession and unless you speak French or want to move to Northern Ontario it takes about a decade on a supply list to actually get a full time job. And the crazy f***ing unions have negotiated everything based on seniority hiring, and they can only interview the top 5 in seniority for every job. So talented and passionate young people - the type who make great teachers and coach sports teams and have a passion for the job - are graduating from teacher's college, getting slapped in the face by the market reality and then switching professions. The result is that the people who become full time teachers eventually will be, generally speaking, the more stupid and untalented people who have no better options than supply teaching until their 30's. Now the Ontario Liberals have made teacher's college two years long to try to stem the flow of graduated teachers, which is just f***ing retarded and unnecessary and a total cash grab. Six years of education to teach Kindergarten? f*** off Kathleen Wynne. So dumb.