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
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
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
This is primed to be the most exciting move of the offseason
Congrats Term on your winning proposal. Really great work
Looking forward to laughing reactions and automatic tweet embedding
At The Letters is decent. Those guys are pretty plugged into the team
Other than that I don’t listen to any Jays pods, and I don’t really think there are that many out there. This place has much Jays knowledge as anywhere else on the internet
The team is going to suck
Do not sign anyone who received a QO
Sign whoever and whatever to one year deals to field roster
Vlad, Bo, Bassitt all off the books in 26
Gausman in 27
Reset and do this properly under new management