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Newcomer of the Year: Brock Beauchamp Most Valuable Poster: BTS Humorist of the Year: Laika Most Insightful Poster: glory Ross Atkins’ Biggest Fan: Brownie19 Best Foreign Poster: Carlos Danger Thread of the Year: The Ship is Sinking Drama Queen Award: jaysblue Ross Atkins’ Biggest Hater: Masterbather Infrequent Poster of the Year: jerb Best Moderator: BTS Who do you think is the oldest poster award: Jim
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Please no crying if you win! (Or lose?)
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It’s been a while. I quickly found 2016 when searching the old board to get ideas for categories. Probably not the last one but it’s been too long
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I don’t agree with it either but looks like that’s what’s happening Jays are going to need SP’s in 2026 and beyond so Flaherty makes sense whether they’re competing or not. I don’t want to sign anyone with a QO because giving up 2026 picks does not make sense assuming this team wins like 78 games
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Welcome to the 2024 JaysCentre Forum Awards, inspired by Michael Scott’s Dundie Awards and Antonio Brown’s Crackers of the Year Been a while since these have taken place and now is a great time to revive them as we enter our JaysCentre era Voting closes January 2, 2025 Copy and paste the following to place your vote Newcomer of the Year: Most Valuable Poster: Humorist of the Year: Most Insightful Poster: Ross Atkins’ Biggest Fan: Best Foreign Poster: Thread of the Year: Drama Queen Award: Ross Atkins’ Biggest Hater: Infrequent Poster of the Year: Best Moderator: Who do you think is the oldest poster award: Good luck everyone!
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The path forward is sign No you don’t have to go all in. In fact I think that’s the last thing that should happen Saddling yourself with 50M in yearly commitments to Bregman/Santander and Pivetta, forfeiting picks to limp into July around .500 would not be smart I think it’s clear at this point they are fine with a) taking the comp pick for Bo/Vlad or b) trading them at the deadline if theyre too far from contention Nothing they’ve done this offseason suggests otherwise The only major player who makes sense at this point is Flaherty
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That’s fine I am giving Atkins very little credit yes. I don’t think he has any sort of autonomy and the whole org is a giant collaboration I don’t think Atkins is the reason the team had some mild success
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Vlad was the reason people wanted to play in Toronto. Without him it’s unlikely that the Jays are playing at the top of the FA market So while yes Atkins did sign these players it wasn’t because of his negotiation skills or players wanting to play for his great young core Which is the point I was trying to make earlier. While yes Atkins was the GM during these incredible four years, I don’t believe he did anything any other GM couldn’t have in Toronto Reasons to play in Toronto circa 2020 1) Vlad and Bo - AA regime 2) Rogers willingness to spend - Rogers 3) Brand new state player dev complex - Shapiro
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
L54 replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
248K views · 1.9K reactions | How we feeling Blue Jays fans? [Via... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM How we feeling Blue Jays fans? [Via Fan First Network] This is my son -
You will never escape this place
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I hope we sign Jurickson Profar and Jose Quintana tonight around 8 EST
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Okay but not moving past 3/4 of a billion dollars is different than Beeston not doing business with Boras or not permitting contracts longer than 5 years lol
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First I’ve heard Didn't they just offer the largest contract in team history (again)?
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You don’t think anybody wanted to play with JB, EE and JD? Do you remember when guys were willing to pass the hat around to give Ervin Santana 12M?
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What self imposed restrictions have Shatkins faced when it comes to FA deals?
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I’ve said this before, but AA had to trade for free agent contracts via prospects to elevate payroll Atkins got to spend it Springer, Semien, Ryu, Gausman, Bassitt, Kikuchi
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No it’s not unreasonable to say they were a top 10 team in some of these seasons. Not sure which year you’re referring to specifically
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
L54 replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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Last four years they’ve ran a top 10 payroll (12th, 11th, 9th, 9th) according to Spotrac They were also large beneficiaries of expanded playoffs. Two out of those three seasons came as the last playoff team (8th in 2020 lol) I don’t think what they’ve done is particularly impressive
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I can’t handle the Atkins is responsible for the best four seasons of baseball ever for the Toronto Blue Jays narrative when he was gifted Vlad and 250M+ payrolls. I’d rather sit beside Trudeau at a Taylor Swift concert drinking Twisted Teas
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What Jays podcasts do you listen to?
L54 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Little Sportsnet minions
