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When Mike Wilner throws in the towel, you know it's bad.

2010: Blue Jays went 85-77 shockingly haha. Breakout season from Jose Bautista, Wells with a solid bounce back season. Great season after the disastrous 2009 season. Strong rotation with Ricky Romero building off his rookie season, Shaun Marcum coming back from injury and an impressive first season from Brandon Morrow with the Jays. Even Brett Cecil had a solid year out of the rotation. 2011: 81-81 not bad. Bautista 8 WAR season; Yunel solid first season in Toronto; Brett Lawrie makes his MLB debut and rakes. Solid years again from Ricky Romero and Brandon Morrow. Casey Janssen solid first year as closer. 2012: 73-89. Romero started to suck; Henderson Alvarez was awful; Jose Bautista only played 92 games; Yunel s*** the bed; Lawrie didn't really blossom. Breakout season from EE however. 2013: 74-88. Exciting offseason but a lot of trades backfired. Dickey wasn't in Cy Young form, Josh Johnson missed most of the season; Morrow got injured. Rasmus had a solid year haha. 2014: 83-79. Improvement from 2013, but still fell short of expectations. Stroman came on the scene and was really solid. Hutchison also wasn't that bad. Bautista and EE had awesome years, and Melky had a great year as well. Lawrie disappointed. I mean overall, the 2012 and 2013 seasons were s***. In 2010 and 2011, Jays actually weren't that bad. In 2014, they were meh. It wasn't like 4-5 years of awful baseball.

Ohtani and the gambling situation. Now this possibly with Sasaki. Can't trust Japanese ballplayers haha.

Yeah agree, just hope Hoffman is healthy and that his shoulder is fine. Would definitely rather have Hoffman at $11M AAV over three years instead of what Minter, LeClerc and Kittredge got. Hoffman has been far superior over the last two season than any of those guys.

No more Anthony Santander. Watch him sign with the Angels now haha.

Looks like we're stuck with Myles Straw now haha. What a way to start the weekend 😅

I still have the Josh Towers jersey yes haha! Thank you!

I think even more now. Has nothing to do with Atkins IMO. More for other reasons.

At the end of the day, Toronto isn't as desirable as a place to play, even for International FA's from Japan.

The A's are going to the World Series!

I thought he was going to get around $8-10M AAV. That's what projections had him at I think.

Landing fees I imagine would be cheaper at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport instead of TPA. It's also closer to Dunedin than TPA.

You never know with this ball club haha. But yeah he might even get DFA before the season as well.

I just added him in the LOD!

Has some speed as well. Put up a 3 WAR season playing full time in 2021 haha. Defensively, he can play all 3 outfield spots decently. If you can get 1 WAR out of him as your 4th outfielder, not bad. As long as you're not relying on him as a starter, getting 500 PA.

I think at the end of the day, best to move on from Vlad. You don't want him here for 10+ years.

Watch Sasaki sign with the Angels and surprise everyone haha.

If I signed up, would you go halfsies?

Will pop the Sapporo and Asahi beers early this morning and drink a whole bottle of Hibiki tonight if Roki signs with the Jays!

He was never the same after he broke his right hand in 2007.

Thomas was solid in 2007 after coming off a 39 HR season with Oakland. Sucks his 2008 season went the way it did, especially with the Jays.

I appreciate AJ Burnett even more now. That offseason was so exciting when they signed Burnett, BJ Ryan, and traded for Glaus and Overbay! Burnett ended up being a great signing despite his first two years where he was on and off the IL. His 2008 season was awesome and having both him and Doc at the top of the rotation was fun to watch! The opt-out clause sucked for the Jays and then things started going downhill after in 2009, after losing Burnett to the Yankees, and losing both Marcum & McGowan to injuries for the entire season. Burnett sucked with the Yankees and looked finished, though he ended up turning his career around at the age of 35 with the Pirates and put together a couple nice seasons until he retired after the 2015 season at the age of 38.