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Atkins has made solid moves and signings for sure during his tenure here. Never said he didn't. Blue Jays traded for Robbie Ray correct? Not sign him as a FA? But regardless excellent pickup on an arm who had previous success a couple years earlier. Always was a Robbie Ray fan during his days in Arizona. Nobody is arguing about Semien obviously. KK and Belt were questionable given their age and injury track record, but they turned out great and stayed healthy. Both could have went the other way and flopped, which some don't realize. Kikuchi looks good if he could prove his 2023 wasn't a fluke and do it again next season. Nobody is arguing about the deals he didn't make. Definitely not caving into signing Jose Bautista to a 5 year $125M contract extension after 2016. Not extending Vlad to a big money extension looks like the right move now for sure. Would be interesting to see which posters on here wanted Bautista and/or Vladdy signed to crazy extensions. I remember some of the numbers being floated around with Vlad even after his 2022 season and it was crazy. Atkins has been really solid here during his tenure in Toronto overall. Could he do better? Of course. I wouldn't put him that high on a pedestal yet however as some other shills on here already do.

Votto is still my No. 1 choice since he's Canadian, a former MVP and would sell a lot of Blue Jays jerseys. Rogers could definitely market him better and since we all care about how Shapiro operates the team from a business perspective and prints money, Votto is easily the guy. Josh Donaldson would be a close second IMO, and you know I'm a big Austin Meadows fan.

Used a top waiver on him. Not sure which priority I had but near the top.

Yeah and it was after his monster 2009 season as well. He was awful from 2010-2012, but was solid in 2013 and 2014 when strictly used in a platoon against RHP only. AA turned him into Estrada who from 2015-2017 was a reliable arm in the rotation.

Haha thinking of proposing it. Already traded for Williams.

Pfaadt or Kerry Carpenter? 20-team dynasty league.

I've mentioned his name a couple of week ago. He would be a perfect fit in this lineup if the Cardinals were selling. Only one-year left at $25M I think, so no long term risk at all and wouldn't cost as much as someone like Juan Soto.

She was a bombshell!

At the end of the day, just want to see the Blue Jays win a World Series, as we all do. AA came close in 2015 and the team in 2016 was close as well. Hope we could see one of these Atkins teams come close over the next two years. I wish that 2021 team made the Playoffs. Think they could have done some damage.

That trade hardly gets mentioned on here, but definitely one of AA's best trades. Estrada pitched in some big games here and was a reliable arm for those three seasons!

Yeah like I understand signing guys to the most money and years might sometimes not always work. But Brownie is making it seem like Atkins discovered electricity by signing Ryu and Springer to big FA contracts.

If Atkins signed those extensions to Lind, Romero, and Morrow, he would have got a free pass by the shills on here. Just "bad luck" or "underperformance" or "well it was a great extension at the time."

Where did I compare Atkins to AA? I just said Atkins offered those players the most money and years which is why they came here. It's nothing groundbreaking. Ryu really didn't pan out as hoped and Springer looks like he's heading in the wrong direction with 3 years and $75M left on his contract. Gausman has been fantastic his first two seasons here and hope he continues to pitch at that high level! J.P. Ricciardi was able to land big name FA's like BJ Ryan and AJ Burnett in 2006, because the Jays at the time offered the most years and money. He was able to sign Frank Thomas because he offered the most money and years as well.

The Jays waved the most money and years at those guys so yeah no wonder why they came here lol. Don't make it sound like Atkins was the only GM who could sign those guys.

The Blue Jays were a borderline Playoff team because they struggled offensively over the 162 game season which carried over into their WC matchup against the Twins.

Could even be better than the actual Super Bowl haha.

Ask Spanky.

I still rank the Eagles over the 49ers but we'll see.

They also rushed to sign Kendrys Morales after the 2016 season for some odd reason to a 3-year-deal. Tanner Roark signing was awful. The Grichuk extension was odd. Ryu was solid in the 2020 shortened season and was meh in 2021. Combined for 4.9 fWAR in his 4 seasons here so spending $20M per season on him was a lot. Springer looked good in his first couple of years here, but the latter part of his deal looks worrisome. Gausman signing has been fantastic to date. But again, huge FA deal. Atkins has done a good job at signing guys to one-year deals like Semien, Belt, and KK.

Looks like San Fran owning the Seahawks early.

Figured there was going to be one upset today. I'm hoping the Seahawks can upset the 49ers.

I bet Sonny goes to Atlanta.

20-team dynasty league, would you trade 2B Davis 'Babe' Schneider for SP Gavin Williams from CLE?

How much do you think Jason Heyward will get? Think he would be a great fit here as a bat to platoon in LF/DH and someone who could backup Varsho in CF. Posted 2.2 WAR last season and hit 15 HR's with a .269/.340/.473 slash line and 121 wRC+ in 377 PA.

I prefer Teo over Pham for sure, but I could see Teo possibly getting 2 or 3 years from someone, we'll see. I could see guys like Brantley, Gallo, Grichuk, Rosario, Profar, and Winker signing a 1-year pillow deal.