Funky

Watching this teams pitchers is like watching my dog drag his ass across the floor. Same results.

Sucking on the bench where he should be, Crappy signing.

That is horrible, sorry for your loss.

Does he have the defense to hold down 3B at the MLB level? Didn’t get to see any minor league the last few years. All his highlights I saw were him going yard.

I was referring to bringing up Orelvis Martinez to DH and maybe take the odd day at 3B. Would like to see what the kid has to offer.

It was hard to believe that he was gonna leave there, especially once they signed Soto. I hope we turn our attachment to Bregman as the term not makes sense but the position he plays and the on base percentage does. Maybe with Bregman in the fold, we could bring up Martinez to sit at DH and mash

Got tickets to Florida. Daughter playing ball down there for two weeks. Gonna be able to catch some ST games in Dunedin again. Now I have more to cheer for with Tony Taters. Ross find him one more bomb buddy. Lots of smoke out there. Bergman is a perfect fit. Don’t like the years but at this point don’t care. if Rogers is willing to spend money we can cover up the odd contract or mistake. Alonso would be fun but would rather have Vladdy on a long term and address 3B Our new vacuum cleaner at 2B will help solidify the infield defence if Vladdy and Bo stay Bullpen looks 5X better than last year thank you Mr. Rogers for stepping up. just do it one more time.

Nice move. I wonder if we go with a 5 or 6 man rotation now? The rotation is getting up there in years and a few of the guys have a lot of pitches on their arms. One more bat in the off season has been a huge success. I didn’t think Ross still had it in him. Gotta give kudos where kudos is due as I’ve s*** talked the guy enough

Regarding the bullpen. I think Swanson’s due for a better year. Rough start to the season after his din was hit by a car. Rebounded nicely at the end. Sandlin eats innings and Yimi coming back should help Not having to overuse Green should also help him Grab one more starter and then you can ship Rodriguez to the pen as well. Instead of being a deficit, the pen could end up being a weapon.

I am all for gutting our front office, but in my mind that should’ve been done months ago before free agency started. It should’ve probably been done before the trade deadline last year. I can see if there were loyalties having the staff get through the year but when the final game was played, that should’ve been the front offices walking notice. I can’t even see the off-season is still young as many free agents have been signed in many moves have been made taking key players off the board. So far we have added an expensive defensive, first second baseman, a possibly broken relief pitcher, and now a $11 million AAAA player. We waited way too long to make Vladdy an offer which will add at least $100-$200 million to the total contract. We’ve been turned on by pretty much everyone and their dog on the offers we have allegedly made Saying all that there are still players on the board that will want to be signed sooner than later. Vlad has given in a diary date as to when he will discuss a contract and we have a ton of international money with not a lot of top prospects left. Is it even possible to make a wholesale change in the front office at this juncture in time as everything will have to be done in haste? If there is an internal budget, is there anything new management could do to undo this defense first philosophy? Is the whole group of problem, or is the problem at a certain level? Maybe Rogers is the problem? Maybe it’s Shapiro, or is it just Atkins and his crew acting on their own? To me it seems like it’s a group effort. Just curious on your guys thoughts, as I’m getting to the point where I just wanna bury my head in the sand and come up for air in a year to see what has happened.

Maybe Ross can trade that 2 million to the evil Dodgers for one of their MLB ready prospects that don’t have a chance to make their all star team but could play for the Jays. Let’s Jays get a ready now guy and the Dodgers to acquire a future prospect they already identified but spent the money on Roki. just trying to think outside the box.

He won’t be here long enough for us to worry about anymore. But agreed.

With Roki in LA and 2 million extra is there any legit top international talent left?

Greatest Bridesmades in the history of the world. What is this front office gonna do now. Hopefully pack their bags and leave. Once Vlad and Bo go we will have nothing left to watch other then a few nice defensive plays and a fat guy waddle around the bases.

Would love a Yates reunion. Plus we already paid him for doing nothing. He owes us

Steve Phillips was on TSN Overdrive yesterday and believes we should sign Alonso and Bregman and trade Vladdy to Seattle for a starter. Also believed we should sign Santander on top of that. The problem in my eyes is we know 1 of those 4 guys actually wants to play in Toronto and that is Vladdy. It’s an interesting thought but I would rather keep Vlad, sign Bregman( on base and defense), sign Santander (boomstick) and trade Bo to recoup the farm. Pivetta also interests me to knock last years prized catch into the BP to strengthen it everywhere I am looking it says Vladdy and the Jays are 100 million apart and Vladdy is asking for 450 million. Has anyone heard the years on this rumor? The only thing I could find is people speculating it’s 10 years. 45 mil a year on a first baseman seems horrific. I would rather a 14 year 500 if the first year started this year and bought out the 28.5 number they settled on but not sure if that is legal? With deferred money and signing bonuses entering play, would Vladdy and TO both be willing to go that route to ether help the annual value or make a buyout number on the backend more palatable? Maybe an incentive clause or two, MVP gets you an extra 3 million apart year or something like that. I guess I just want to see the team remain competitive. Rebuilds suck, and baseball prospects seem compatible to lotteries. You may get lucky or most often you are purchasing more lotto tickets looking for the winners. The FO made a good signing yesterday. I just hope the momentum continues as I will be down at spring training and can’t wait to see some ball, and sun

Yanks and Sox land aces while we trade for a guy that can’t hit. Makes sense.

Great. Yanks and Sox each get an ace and we trade for a guy that can’t hit.

At this point I am thinking best case scenario is sign the two Baltimore guys. Burnes gives us a top or the league rotation, pushes Yarriel to bullpen where he belongs for now. Santander gives us switch hitting power. Although with his frequent swing and miss stuff, he might not be what our front office targets

I also think Adamas hitter wise was the next best but I don’t believe for a minute Soto comes here. We can’t even sign Vlad and we just threw away our closer who is apparently healthy. It sounded like NYY really wanted Adamus so does this have them circle back and try harder on Soto or do they grab the next big target like Burnes? Mets are bolstering their team with Pitching while waiting on Soto. We can’t even sign a cheap depth relief guy like Yimi just to start filling in boxes? Dodgers will probably land the next great Japanese Pitcher and sign Teo. Boston scares me. They have money and a long term signed Devers to try and pursuade Soto. We have higher taxes, crap weather, border crossings and no long term outlook. Why would Soto or any other top guy sign here? Money would be it and many teams seems to have that. We will end up with Moncada and an ex Yankee that can’t play D in a position we are flush in.

With his age and already having 2 massive years under his belt I am going to say Devers with inflation. 10 years $360 with outs after 4 and 6. As for if it is worth it or not, that is a legit question. Unfortunately this team was dog s*** for years with a few bright spots sprinkled here and there. I have no faith in this front office rebuilding with anything of substance any time soon and prospects seem to flame out more then hit. For selfish reasons I want him to remain a Jay for a long time as there was really no other reason to drag my ass to the ballpark game after game.

I am in the blow your wad in Vlad and Soto boat. Both young, friends, great hit tools with power. Ones a lefty and ones a righty. Both suck at defense but we have guys like Varsho etc whose defensive play helps make up for that void. These guys should be in the top tier of batters for the next ten years and are basically the age or younger than the prospects we are trying to get a look at. These guys help both currently and a long time into the future. Ownership has the money to make this happen. They have a whole country of fans that will get on board the more exciting this team is. We are a couple years away from shedding some major contracts like Springers, Bassitt’s etc where we can add the next piece. Not many guys I would gamble on heavily but Soto’s youth and track record make him that guy for me.

Would love to see Soto hitting behind Vladdy for the next 10 years. No matter how stingy defense is, pitchers still will get hit off of and if we can’t score runs we are not winning Don’t care about their defence. Having elite defensive gems like Varsho help take the sting out of Soto’s defence. Move Vladdy to 3rd and get an elite defense SS to help. Bring in a slugging 1B or DH to make a murderers row like we used to have.

If that is the case that’s pretty low class. The guy has been a class act over his career here and deserves better. I would imagine that would not sit well with Schneider as well.

Just hard to watch this team or get excited about the future. The athletic guys can’t hit, the fat guys can’t seem to do anything and our best player will most likely walk in a few years. We have a s***** front office that has squandered the generous amounts of money the owners have given them for an old, non athletic, low IQ team that realizes to much on analytics and inflated self worth.