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  1. John_Havok
    I dunno what the real deadline is, I'm almost numb and indifferent to it at this point.
  2. John_Havok
    Agreed, but the Astros and the Jays are not in the same situation as franchises. Pointing to team X and saying "they did it so the Jays should have too" isn't overly productive.
  3. John_Havok
    And Ortiz didnt even get any longer term deals either, his longest contract was only 4 years. Even raking as a DH for as long as he did, the long term commitments weren't there. Yes, different ages and Ortiz is the purest of pure DHs, but there was still enough worry that he would crater sooner rather than later. He just never really did.
  4. John_Havok
    He's such a polarizing player ... easy to see HoF hitting talent, yet his results are not consistent. The rest of the package is flawed, baserunning and defense. That said, his value to the franchise is not purely on-field related. Casuals love the guy and he's a Roger's marketing wet dream for their brand. If there's no signing, I would just wonder how far apart the ask and the offer actually were. Who knows. I'd love to see him get signed, but it also feels like his ask is probably way too high for a guy of his on-field results.
  5. John_Havok
    Stalker. But please keep up the good work!
  6. John_Havok
    None of this rambling incoherence makes any sense. point #1: "Atkins has shown no loyalty to any player...". Who cares? Loyalty gets you screwed. No player signs as a free-agent to an organization because of some made-up feeling of loyalty. point #2: "We should have been all over Vladdy last year when we could have easily locked him in for life for $300 million." Says who? Made up feelings and conjecture? Point #3: "We need pirtching more than anything but we have to get long term out of our straters..." 3 of the biggest workhorses in today's game are in the Jays starting staff. Clueless point. Point #4 " and super relief from the bullpen..." Every team needs this. This is not a Jays specific problem. Yes, their pen was complete dumpster fire last season. Now, Atkins has 3 bonafide back end capable relievers now in Garcia, Hoffman and Green, and additional arms brought in via trade. Pitching staff as a while projects very well. I could go on, but... these are are the big ones. Try again when you have an ounce of baseball acumen.
  7. John_Havok
    The two weeks prior to ST are easily the worst two weeks of the offseason. Hurry up and wait
  8. John_Havok
    Probably the best umpire in MLB was fired. Pat Hoberg had a gambling account, shared his info with someone, and that person used his account to place bets on baseball, including 8 games Hoberg umpired in, but zero evidence Hoberg's calls were influenced and no bets were ever placed by Hoberg's device, just his account. He did apparently delete some messages that had to do with the investigation. Sucks.
  9. John_Havok
    I don't presume to speak for others, just me. If I want to read an article, I prefer clicking to the place where the articles are. If I want to read discussion posts about general blue jays or baseball topics, I would rather click there and not have to sift past the stuff I don't want to read. It's just an extension of the same logic as to why the minor league portion of the forums is separated from the the others, why the non-baseball is separated. Articles here. Forums there News over here.
  10. John_Havok
    Is it possible to have the articles separated from the forum threads? I get that content generation is key in driving traffic, but I don't want to have scroll through all the articles to get to the non-article threads. And honestly, the volume of articles already is irritating, but that's just "old man yelling at clouds" syndrome Is that available in customization?
  11. John_Havok
    Whitt i think was one...
  12. John_Havok
    Vukovich?
  13. John_Havok
    The Yates signing isn't official by any stretch, from reading between the lines it was a "agreement in principle if......." and they hadn't even formally agreed to those ifs yet.
  14. John_Havok
    Would you take these things off already? I don't deserve this shabby treatment. *buzzer* If you know, you know.
  15. John_Havok
    Ffs I missed another circle jerk? I need to adjust my notifications....
  16. John_Havok
    I sure hope it was porn. Jacking it to a grocery list would be weird.
  17. John_Havok
    Missing a high contact hitter with good baserunning? You mentioned Ernie Clement. That's basically his entire offensive profile.
  18. John_Havok
    Doubtful. Both MLB and the PA would be against it.
  19. John_Havok
    Careful comparing Kim and Clement, the pitchforks will come out, despite the statement being incredibly accurate
  20. John_Havok
    Not bad, gave him what he wanted in both length and AAV, signing bonus, and gave him an opt-out, but after 3rd year rather than 1st, and deferred money. Atkins read my memo and made it better. Can't really hate this at all
  21. John_Havok
    I'm now fully convinced that with the frequency and quality of Davy's articles, he is 100% a robot.
  22. John_Havok
    Shkuldnt be long then for Sherzer to the Dodgers for 1 year, 20 million with 15 million deferred and 4 million signing bonus
  23. John_Havok
    Yes, one of them plus Bregman is also a fine alternative for this situation.
  24. John_Havok
    Certainly true. But, at this point, even if we assume a Vlad extension, the lineup has virtually 0 power outside of Vlad. They need thump and they need it badly. The one wildcard in all this is Orelvis, but one cannot expect anything out of him yet. Sign them both, give up the picks. If all goes well. They make.noise in the playoffs. If s*** goes south, trading whomever you can at the deadline recoups the 2 lost picks with players they didn't have to draft and spend 2-3 in the minors developing. If they want contention, they have to take risks at this point. Status quo isn't good enough. Playing it safe is the wrong strategy for this situation IMO If they don't want to take risks now for 2025, may as well just start the retool/rebuild early.
  25. John_Havok
    My vote goes to signing Santander and Alonso. Easy DH rotation between the 2 of them plus Vlad, though primarily I'd have Santander in LF, Alonso DH and Vlad at 1st. Clement at 3rd most days. As for contracts, I'd just offer short term deals, front loaded with 1 year opt outs. Like, if Santander wants 5/100, fine. But it's a 10m signing bonus and 30m for 2025, then 60 over the last 4. Basically begging him to opt out because you don't really want him for another 4 years anyways. Same style for Alonso.
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