Terminator

Or maybe Jim is right and he has a childhood fear of earthquakes and tsunamis!

It's probably a combination of: 1. Player friendly org. A lot of guys like Turner and Kikuchi have spoken about this. It seems like we really try and put the cherry on top by being extra friendly with team's families and things like that. 2. More tolerable fanbase and media market. This is kind of another check for being a more player friendly place to play. If the team sucks, LAD fans are probably calling in death threats. When we suck people just check out. We have milquetoast media too. 3. Keeping starting pitchers healthy. This only applies to our old MLB pitchers so hopefully he doesn't do any research beyond that though if he compares us to the Dodgers in this regard we win. 4. Best spring training facilities in the game. Pitchers spend over a month and a half at these facilities before the season starts. This kind of goes to staying healthy and being a player friendly org. I don't know that we necessarily offer up anything special with regard to endorsement opportunities or anything like that. Maybe there is some SportsNet loopholes that give us a leg up.

I doubt he comes here but usually we are a finalist because we are shoving a shitload of money at the player. We basically force our way into being a finalist. In this instance, every team in the league can offer him about the same amount of money. We will probably be a bridesmaid again but there is something about the franchise that he is highly interested in and it's not money. And because we stick out like a sore thumb compared to the two SoCal teams, whatever that thing is could be a strike against them and could push us over the top.

Still a good number of interesting lefties in FA. I'm going to assume Tanner Scott is no longer an option but there's Jalen Beeks, Andrew Chafin, AJ Minter and Danny Coulombe who stand out as borderline setupmen who are lefties. Trading a Buffalo Boy for a reliever seems like it could make some sense as well.

I was looking at the bullpen on Roster Resource and it's in much better shape. There's even some decent relievers in AAA now (Burr, Walker). If we sign a SP and move Yariel to the pen it's looking even better. Not sure what purpose Pop serves though. I'd like to see them get a lefty in there instead of him. One who is good enough to setup. Projected Bullpen▼ ORIGINAL SIGNING INFO Prospect Rank Power Rank 2024 STATS 1 more_vert ROLE POS # PLAYER THR AGE HOW ACQUIRED Options MLB Service Time Year Team Rd Pick Ovr Rank ('24) Org Rank ('25) Org Rank ('24) Ovr WAR ERA SV IP BB/9 K/9 CL RP 23 Jeff Hoffman R 32.0 Free Agent (PHI) Jan'25 n/a 6.084 2014 TOR 1 9 13 2.0 2.17 10 66.1 2.17 12.08 SU8 RP 57 Chad Green R 33.6 Free Agent (NYY) Jan'23 n/a 8.050 2013 DET 11 336 52 0.0 3.21 17 53.1 2.36 7.76 SU7 RP 63 Yimi García R 34.4 Free Agent (SEA) Dec'24 n/a 9.149 JAN 2009 LAD 65 0.4 3.46 5 39 2.77 11.31 MID RP 50 Erik Swanson R 31.4 Trade (SEA) Nov'22 n/a 5.059 2014 TEX 8 246 227 -0.7 5.03 0 39.1 3.20 8.47 MID RP 52 Nick Sandlin R 28.0 Trade (CLE) Dec'24 3 3.157 2018 CLE 2 67 144 -0.7 3.75 1 57.2 4.21 10.61 MID RP 54 Brendon Little L 28.4 Purchased (CHC) Nov'23 2 0.135 2017 CHC 1 27 262 -0.3 3.74 1 45.2 3.74 7.09 MID RP 56 Zach Pop R 28.3 Trade (MIA) Aug'22 0 2.171 2017 LAD 7 220 363 -0.7 5.59 1 48.1 3.54 6.14 LR RP 45 Tommy Nance R 33.8 Trade (SDP) Aug'24 0 2.082 FEB 2016 CHC 454 0.1 4.09 0 22 3.68 7.77

This sounds insane but if you could sign any of the three big "Jays are finalists" types over the past two years you might actually take Sasaki due to his age and how little he is getting paid

Leave it to Ross to actually finish in 2nd place on his first big FA signing of the year lol

On another note I am pleasantly surprised at how good the articles have been lmao I was expecting some low quality clickbait but we've been getting some good statistical analysis. Of course I didn't expect Davy to write here but the other writers have been great too

If he could merely get results to match the .323 xwOBA we could live with that. The defense is holding and his baserunning is still surprisingly elite-ish. He needs to move down in the lineup though. Ideally, we'd have enough good hitters to bat him 6th.

71 million on that?? Wow

It’s not the “all in” it’s the “hold on tight”

The extension will be easy to make

I wonder if Vlad actually cares about the years. 10 years/450 mil would saddle the team with quite the tax burden. 15/450 would lessen the load considerably and I wonder if he really cares about possible FA contracts from age 36-40 when we are talking about that much dough.

Steamer projects him to have a 103 wRC+ which is 3% better than average.

Most of this doesn't make any sense to me. It's a bunch of non-sequiturs strung together, some of which aren't even factual. Yeah I get the criticism here but I don't think it will kill the team to have him play 2B for a year. Making the switch in Bo's walk year might do more harm than good. Just don't make the mistake of keeping Gimenez at 2B in year two like they did with Varsho.

Yeah you aren't wrong. Offense definitely gets paid more. That said, Gimenez isn't just good at defense, he's godly. Perhaps the Daulton Varsho of the infield and that's really valuable. Especially when he's projected to be a decent hitter and baserunner too.

Zips teased his Jays Depth Chart today with a tweet. Someone compared it to the other AL East teams (can't find the tweet anymore) and it was about 6 wins behind the Yankees, 4 wins behind the O's and the same as the Red Sox. The Rays don't have theirs out yet.

Yeah Black had a pretty disastrous year. Otherwise I think this would be a fine trade. But Black underperformed with the stick and moved down the defensive spectrum.

I'd leave it the way it is this year. Gimenez will just pile up the OAA at 2B and Bo will probably be below average at SS. But if you swap them, Gimenez probably takes a hit and there's no guarantee that Bo automatically turns into a good 2B. Could be a learning curve there.

This whole special budget thing is odd. I get it for Ohtani, who is a legitimate global superstar that would unlock more marketing opportunities for the team. But Soto is just a really good player. He's not a global superstar and frankly most people wouldn't even recognize him on the street in the US or Canada. You're telling me that the team can afford to spend 765 mil on Soto but not fractions of that on other good players? Like 180 on Bregman or 100 on Flaherty? Or even 60 on Scott? Or even 400 on Vlad? Further, given all of Bregman's playoff runs, he's probably just as recognizable as Soto and the marketability gap between the two isn't that great.

I tend to agree when it comes to Moncada. Not sure he's any better than Clement. He does hit switch so we could platoon them a bit but then again we could also do that with Barger who projects better than Moncada anyway.

Yeah they are probably screwed either way with Vlad. Don't re-sign him and he's a Top 10 hitter the next 5+ years somewhere, possibly with the Red Sox. Fans are livid. Sign him and the final 5+ years of the deal are a major albatross.

My bad. You threw out the standard "Ross can't sign anybody because the team sucks" post with regard to the remaining FAs and Tony Taters is like the 2nd or 3rd best guy left so forgive me for thinking you were talking about him. Teo has been more talked about than anyone so I wrongly assumed you meant him too. With the added nuance of your quoted post, I can now say that you have a very solid viewpoint, even though you like to venture into jaysblue territory (might as well tar and feather him while I'm at it) by making overly whiny posts to vent your frustration every once in a while. But I see what you are saying now and I agree that the state of the franchise does affect them more, especially when it comes to the Top Tier FAs (the true "impact" guys as you say) because the top teams will be in on them and the offers seemingly all top out around the same. The Tony Taters of the world are more worried about pure cash so we can still sign those overpaid turds. We actually don't disagree that much.