TwistedLogic

Oh no. Got called a dork on a sabermetric baseball forum.

Should he be on other websites praising this forum? A place where new people can drop in at any moment and see dirtbag racist s*** like this?

The Blue Jays lost a 2nd round draft pick and $500K of their international signing budget when they signed Bassitt. They would have lost their 2nd and 5th round picks and $1M in international FA money if they were a luxury tax team last season. That's pretty much the only bearing the luxury tax has on IFA expenditures. Hope the 500K they lost doesn't hurt their ability to sign Bonilla. Don't think it will but it would be ass if it did.

Oh and FanGraphs is allotting $2.5M for 40-man roster minor leaguers while Cot's and Spotrac allot $2.25M. Both of those numbers are likely high. Unless the Blue Jays really enjoy paying their guys well above minor league minimum, the real spending there will probably come in around $1.6M, creating another ~$900K of space against FanGraphs' estimate.

Not accurate. FanGraphs has 7.2M earmarked for league min players. The Jays only have room on the roster for four league min players (Manoah, Kirk, Moreno and a fourth bench bat like Barger). That's like 3.2M on the high end. I'm guessing FanGraphs is overestimating because when a guy like Springer goes down with injury and you call up Nathan Lukes or whoever, you have to pay him league min for the time he's up. But because that's not remotely predictable, there's no point calculating minutiae like that halfway through the offseason. Whenever they trade Jansen and get rid of Thornton and Richards, they'll have the space for those added league min costs. In other words, consider the Jays under the tax line for now.

They do. They drafted him in the 16th round of the 2013 draft and he has a 126 wRC+ projection for next year with 5 years of control. Goes by Lars Nootbaar.

Updated my payroll estimate chart for another community and thought to cross-post it here in case people might find it useful!

Questioning/defending the Jays moves aside, how about the Twins trading f***ing Christian Encarnacion-Strand++ for Tyler Mahle. CES is going to be a stud and that deal (along with the Castillo trade) has a little Chris Archer to the Pirates aging potential.

I'm okay with beaning him 3-0.

I don't care what others do with their bodies. I made that clear numerous times in my comments.

To be clear, I think anyone who is genuinely anti-vax is a f***ing moron. Like, legitimately bottom rung of the human intellect totem pole. But I have no other feelings beyond that. I don't hate those people for feeling the way they do. I'm not passionate about COVID or vaccines. I don't give a s*** if you've gotten the shot or if you don't like masks. I don't engage in COVID debates because I'm not a doctor and it's a waste of time. It is simply an objective observation of mine that anyone who holds real anti-vax beliefs was simply forgotten by evolution and that's okay. I mean it sucks for them, but it doesn't really affect me one way or another.