Terminator
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Yeah I agree, the offseason hasn't been ideal at all and I've been saying that for a while. It's now January and Upton, Smoak, and Zeke are slated for major playing time. That's not good. This team was a clear WC contender heading in to the offseason but we've kind of whiffed so far this offseason so now I'm not sure. Like you said, things can not work out the way you hope as I agree with you on the whole Fowler/EE thing. Just unfortunate how that worked out. Cameron's take is that if we sign Bautista to a one year deal then the offseason won't be so bad. It wouldn't be horrible but my point was that's an awful lot riding on what remains the best FA left. Someone could decide that they aren't finding any trades and they make Bautista a competitive two year deal and we lose him.
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Not a bad take. Seems like a weird position to be in though, there is one good FA left in Bautista and this team has a lot riding on how that plays out.
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That's a good policy. The Ricky Romero extension was BAD. That's an example of extending decent but not great young pitching talent and seeing it blow up in your face.
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He said it like it was fact so I was wondering if it was some new line of sabremetric thinking. I think LF and RF are similar enough that if LF gets so many more outs that theory would make sense. I've never heard that before though.
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I don't mind Stoeten either. His early stuff with Parkes was hilarious. His pod isn't bad, I actually like Fairservice quite a bit.
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Is that true? Should you really put your worst OF in RF because more balls are hit there? I always thought your worst OF should be in LF.
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Is Pearce in LF and Bautista at 1B better than the other way around? I'm not convinced. Seems like two subpar fielders instead of just one.
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Report: Blue Jays have looked into Moss
Terminator replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I agree when it comes to small lineup pieces like a loogy, but when the team has sub 1 WAR players slotted for significant playing time it's a big problem if the goal is to compete. -
Sign Bautista for LF, trade for Dyson for RF, sign a backup C and then tinker with the bullpen and I think that allows us to compete for the WC.
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Bautista in LF and Pearce at 1B could be a better alignment. Pearce is better at 1B than he is in the OF and Bautista is an unknown at 1B. But you could be right, Bautista should bring his 1B glove to ST and they can tinker with it.
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Report: Blue Jays have looked into Moss
Terminator replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
The FO never gave any indication that they wanted EE after signing Morales. They pretty much closed the door on EE when that happened. -
Report: Blue Jays have looked into Moss
Terminator replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
The FO basically said that the door was closed on EE when they signed Morales. I wish they would have kept a more open mind when EE signed for as little as he did. Could have made it work for the first season. -
Report: Blue Jays have looked into Moss
Terminator replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Moss is fine as a small addition who platoons. He's projected for about a WAR in a full season. -
Report: Blue Jays have looked into Moss
Terminator replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
That lineup suxxx. -
Sign who? Only OFers left are all projected for sub 1 WAR.
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Are we guaranteed to get a pick for Bautista? The team that signs him could have a protected pick right? And then we'd get a 2nd rounder? I forgot how this works. I'd love to see us resign Bautista and then make a trade for McCutchen or Puig.
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He was a really easy way to keep this team competitive next year. In the end perhaps it's best we didn't sign him but I'd like to win the WC again and right now this roster needs a lot of work.
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It's possible that they all are telling the truth and Atkins didn't want EE anymore after signing Morales and Pearce because of some sort of promise he made to them or because he was worried about constructing the lineup with both EE and Morales on the team. If that's the case it's a pretty big error but that's a lot of conjecture. Or maybe Atkins made the offer, knew EE would reject and quickly moved on simply because he doesn't like EE's skillset moving forward and didn't want to pay 20 AAV for a DH. Regardless, this is a set back for the team IMO and I don't think this board is really grasping it right now. We lost a 4 WAR player and we are replacing him with inferior players and still have huge glaring holes. Still lots of offseason left although the FA options aren't that appealing. I'll reserve further judgment but this team needs to make a trade badly.
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This makes no sense. If they were willing to go up to 100 mil why wouldn't they just sign him at a big discount and figure out the positions afterward. Pearce to LF, EE to 1B and Smoak to Buffalo. Surely less than ideal defense at 1B and in LF wouldn't prevent them from signing a player at 35% discount?
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Seems like the team is taking the heat for this one. I think he'll get cheered.
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Very well said. You have single-handedly redeemed yourself after today's Bautista to 3B post.
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Easy was the wrong word. I used it because we had replacement level players at 4 positions (corner OF , 1B and DH) so in theory just resigning Edwin and adding a combination of 4-5 WAR for the other 3 spots would pretty much get us there.
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Honestly, both isn't good enough. We are a .500 team right now. We need to add at least 5 wins, preferably more.
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Saunders probably isn't any worse than Moss. He's more risk-reward though IMO. We could really use him or Moss. I'd probably prefer Saunders.
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I'd prefer to be higher than 85-86. This team easily could have been in the 88 range. Also, your proposal of possibly adding an OF, signing a backup C, and signing a couple of relievers might not even get us to 85. This team needs some significant moves which they can still do.
