Terminator

Yeah when the team has good and motivated ownership it can support a top payroll.

Going to be a disastrous fielder at 3B. Has no arm and can barely play 2B.

What a joke franchise

Jays offseason sure has been fun: In on two of the biggest FAs of all time until the very end (ok not so fun) Trade for the best defensive infielder in baseball Sign a setup man who touches 99 Sign one of the best relievers in MLB to be the closer Sign a switch hitter coming off a 44 homer season Sign a SP who is a first ballot HoFer

Yeah that math checks out to me. Sounds crazy but it seems like the Jays are seriously considering spending this much!

The CBT tax works in 2 ways. A blanket tax on all overages depending on how many years you are over the tax. The Jays are a first year offender so they pay a 20% tax on all overages. The second way the tax applies is the surcharge thresholds. There are various tiers depending on how much the team is over. But those surcharges only apply to the amounts you are over. For example, if you spend $302 mil you are in the highest tier and a 60 percent surcharge applies. But that surcharge only applies to the money above the threshold. So you'd pay a 60 percent surcharge on the 1 million that you would be over. So going over the thresholds a little bit isn't a big deal, but if you go over them a lot it is. Especially once the Jays hit 281 million. Every dollar they spend between 281 mil and 301 million will carry a 42.5% surcharge. Here's the surcharge tiers: $261 million to $281 million: 12 percent surcharge $281 million to $301 million: 42.5 percent surcharge for first year; 45 percent for each consecutive year after that $301 million or more: 60 percent surcharge

Yeah I don't see why the Jays would stop after signing Scherzer. I'm confident they'll add another bat.

I really hope Scherzer is healthy. Baseball is a sport rooted in history and it's fun having HoFers on your team, even if it's just for a season or two at the end of their careers (as long as they are contributing!).

Ross has had a good offseason. Yeah he whiffed on Soto and Sasaki, the latter of which was especially rough with the Straw trade factored in. But he's been patient and it's paid off with Santander and Scherzer. But he also jumped the market on relievers and got Garcia and Hoffman on deals that make them look like steals when Carlos Estevez who projects for an ERA over 4.00 is getting 2 years 22 million.

Yeah I think he has an extra gear that Verlander and Morton don't have anymore in that you would be comfortable with him in a playoff rotation.

Now you're talkin' Jim

So basically we got him at the same exact price that Verlander and Morton went for. Here's their 2025 projections. Scherzer: 2.1 WAR Morton: 1.4 Verlander: 1.4

Being fat helps at Catcher. The Molinas all played until their late 30s and all 3 of them were fat asses. The more fat = the more natural padding to avoid injury

Holy smokes 😲

Yeah that's a lot of money for Estevez. The Hoffman deal looks like a steal as does the Yimi Garcia deal. Atkins was smart to jump the market on the latter. Yimi has more injury concerns but he's a lot better than Estevez and he's only getting paid less than 2/3 of what Estevez is getting.

I'm sure the Giants are eating some money but the Reds are making some moves and spending some money. Signed Tito to manage Brought back Nick Martinez on the QO Traded for Gavin Lux Traded for Jose Trevino Signed Austin Hays Traded for Brady Singer Brought back Brent Suter Traded for Taylor Rogers

He makes a ton of sense and would vault this team into a AL East contender. Houston has natural advantages over us, of course. So we probably have to beat their offer by a good bit. Nightengale says 6 for 180 makes him think but with no state income tax and it being the only team he's played for it might take 7 years which starts to get pretty damn scary if you map it out. Age 31: 4 WAR Age 32: 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 Age 37: 1

I bet the Jays could get Arraez and Suarez (didn't realize he can opt out after this year) both in a salary dump. Maybe throw them a Buffalo Boy or two and I bet the Padres would even eat some salary. Or even move Straw to them as a way to dump salary. Their depth is so bad they could use him and even guys like Schneider and Lukes. Those 3 for Arraez and Suarez would save them 16-17 million bucks which they could use to turn around and sign JDM and Quintana or something. The only problem is Arraez even an upgrade over Will Wagner?

Not even a rumor about Bregman makes me think we aren't even trying on him Alonso starting to seem more unlikely too I bet we pull off a trade

Yes it was hyperbole

Kim is going to destroy us

Yeah you are probably right. My guess is the Padres would eat some of Arraez's deal OR they would throw in a reliever who has some surplus value to make it worth it. Or maybe even both. Arraez would be fun to have, though he's probably not a very shrewd addition.