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  1. KingKat
    I'd eat the whole salary, Trout is so much win.
  2. KingKat
    It's a shame because the Jays could REALLY use a young outfielder especially one with the positional versatility this one has.
  3. KingKat
    IMO, that makes it far less likely the Jays will sign him.
  4. KingKat
    Ohka!
  5. KingKat
    That's nothing to sneer at but if you assume AA had no choice but to move Escobar, his overall record looks better. It's true that the non-Escobar pieces weren't so bad. Reyes is an expensive replacement at SS but if you assume that AA HAD to replace Escobar, he's not so bad. All the moves are defensible in isolation (well unless moving Escobar was simply a personal preference which is undefensible). The overall roster construction was seriously weak though regardless of what you say about the moves individually. Two swith-hitting 2B neither of which could back up SS. Seemingly blind faith in Arencibia. No depth at 3B behind Lawrie. The season went worse than expected but a lot of what went wrong was existing flaws being exposed.
  6. KingKat
    AA used prospects in trades before (Johermyn Chavez, Tyler Pastornicky) but it was more about evening out deals or jumping the timeline on still young talent (Molina for Santos). AA's always been willing tu use prospects as currency but being willing to use prospects as currency doesn't imply using prospects to take on salary dumps. That was unquestionalby a departure for AA.
  7. KingKat
    I fail to see why giving up that package would be more appealing than giving up Sanchez. Stroman has a much closer timeline and a much better floor than Sanchez and Gose may be garbage but he's the only CF behind Rasmus and the only CF under control for 2015.
  8. KingKat
    The best bet right now is that one of the players with type A compensation gets ignored (Drew/Jimenez/Santana) and AA swoops in. It would make some sense to take advantage of the protected first-rounder. GMs probably aren't lining up to give big money and 1st round pick for an inconsistent pitcher like Santana. He seems the likeliest candidate to be available the longest. Of course, once Santana brings down his price, teams may change their mind about him so the Jays won't get the sizable bargain that at more attractive franchise might so even that small ray of light is pretty dim. I think AA is too compartmentalized in his thinking to consider improving his defense by moving Reyes to 2B. I can't see Drew coming even at a discount.
  9. KingKat
    Early in the off-season, he was talking about bringing in three pitchers but even then that should have been considered a longshot. It's even more of a longshot this late in the off-season without even one having been secured.
  10. KingKat
    Results?
  11. KingKat
    7. Teams will pay a premium for potential front line talent that's not tied to compensation.
  12. KingKat
    Yeah but for all you know that guy is a law genius. He may also be a total idiot. I'm not saying you're wrong about some of the people in your building but that's kind of a poor example. Some people are geniuses in their field and yes surpisingly inept at doing day to day practical things.
  13. KingKat
    A very Yankees thing to do.
  14. KingKat
    Well s***...
  15. KingKat
    A winter tour that's not even leaving southern Ontario suggests penny pinching.
  16. KingKat
    At this point, I'm not confident AA has 20 million to spend much less 20 million plus the price of the contract.
  17. KingKat
    If he gets his act together, sure.
  18. KingKat
    Part of the reason, why there's talk about Bautista moving is that this is his last off-season before his 5-10 rights kick in. He will basically have his de facto no trade protection after the season's first pitch.
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  20. KingKat
    This may give credence to the belief that new management has tightened the purses. We've always assumed that AA had roughly 15 million to play with but maybe he's had the rug pulled out from under him. His inactivity may be linked to only being able to do NBA style trades. No free agent signings, no taking on payroll in trades. Why would you do such a half-ass tour unless you're being cheap? This is suspicous.
  21. KingKat
    If you don't want to do a proper tour then don't do a tour. Don't piss on the fans and tell them it's raining.
  22. KingKat
    You hear whispers of players who requested trades. Scott Rolen did reportedly but the matter was handled privately the way it should be. The fact that he never went public suggests to me that it had more to do with his knees then the organization. Cito rubbed a few players the wrong way (D. Wells, D. Bell, S. Green, T. Snider) and of course there was Hillenbrand but negativity seems quite rare especially in non-Cito years.
  23. KingKat
    Hopefully they will annnounce more dates because otherwise they kind of wussed out on the whole "tour" concept.
  24. KingKat
    Nice to hear. He's a great player. He doesn't deserve the backlash he's getting in some circles.
  25. KingKat
    The fact that this comes on the heel of the last decent 2B signing doesn't augur well for middle infield improvements. AA is acquiring depth behind Goins when he should be using Goins himself for depth and acquiring a major league player. AA better be confident that he's going to deliver those promised pitching upgrades because opportunities to improve the team are dwindling.
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