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Hi John do you care to venture a guess on how many hot dogs Alejandro Kirk can eat in one sitting?

I'm assembling a team

So anyway, how many hot dogs do you guys think Alejandro Kirk can eat in one sitting?

Lmao let’s go through the roster and count the guys who we think are “concerned” with the org if they don’t do anything other than releasing a statement saying Taters and his dumbass opinions are his own. I’m going to go ahead and venture a guess that Nathan Lukes and his thin blue line tattoo isn’t calling Ross Atkins and demanding action lol. I also have an hunch that all those guys that went to that country concert together might be in the same boat. That’s about a 10 player head start but if you think most of the rest of them are concerned that the Jays aren’t going to hold Taters accountable I’d love to know who you think it is.

The offseason timing helps. Hopefully this pressures the Jays into making a huge signing and then it’s officially old news. Bring me Tarik Skubal this weekend Ross

Do any other MLB orgs kick players off the team for controversial social media posts or is it just ours? I genuinely can’t remember. I think we got away with it with Bass given the circumstances but if we dump Santander that will be two players in about as many years. I wonder how players around the league would feel about that. Keep in mind most of them are white southerners, catholic Latinos, or traditional Asians.

Lmao here we go again, our softer than baby sh1t fanbase is going to lose their minds over a player who is boomermaxxing on social media. It took us decades to get players to sign here, let's not start running them out of town for stupid social media stuff. The fanbase is starting to get a reputation and it isn't great. If we can somehow use this to void his contract (we can't) then I will join the mob trying to tar and feather him, otherwise let's just hope he can start hitting nukes again

That seems kind of crazy. He's Fangraphs #7 FA and they projected a 4 year, $92M dollar deal for him. He must be insufferable to be around. But who cares I say we sign him anyway. The team lost their right to preserve the power of friendship last year with poor play. We need talent.

Geezus I make one little joke about Straw's option being 20% of the Guardians' offseason budget only to return to the board to see that it ignited a two page argument on Andres Gimenez

Yeah if anything, declining Straw's option makes the Guardians pony up $1.75M to buy him out. That's like 20% of their offseason budget.

Yeah that all makes sense to me. Boob-itch or one of the Japanese guys to go with a good reliever could work. Or maybe one of those two and then another SP like Foster Griffin or something. Get two 120 inning guys.

Just going off of what we already have in-house, you could slide Lukes into LF, platoon Clement/Smith at 2B, and give Keys some DH ABs while Taters gets time in the corner OF spots. There's obviously room to upgrade, but SP might actually be the bigger need. Cease and Soriano project as a #1 and #3, while Trey and Ponce look solid but with limited innings. Miles is a decent swingman, and then you've got the Spaghetti, Berrios, Bloss, and Francis slop. Sounds weird after watching that anemic offense last year, and I'm definitely going to get tarred and feathered for this, but a good SP might improve this team more than a good bat. We don't really have a 5th starter but we do have some 2 WARish guys for the other spots.

I agree with all of this. Clase sucks. Get him out of here. Schneider also sucks and has been pass by Smith, McAdoo, etc. Clement and Smith don't really both fit if we add another 2B. Smith has options though and if he's in Buffalo it could make it easier to dump Schneider. But maybe a Clement/Smith platoon isn't THAT bad if we upgrade enough elsewhere?

The end of that tweet says that we also declined Straw's option.

If Lowe and Arraez really are about the same price I can see the argument for either one. Arraez has a high floor and Lowe has a high ceiling. Arraez does actually project slightly better, even with the stick, for whatever that is worth. But getting one of those two, or even Gleyber, is a no brainer. Jazz should also be considered. EDIT: Lowe has a QO attached so we lose a pick if we sign him.