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  1. Gorlak
    Good offseason, Just would have preferred Lawrie/Happ/Cabrera vs Donaldson/Saunders.
  2. Gorlak
    Less so than saying some random will save the bullpen.
  3. Gorlak
    His contract was fair, I think it was that and they didn't like his low effort style. My argument would have been "Who cares, he hit .350 against righties".
  4. Gorlak
    Although it had nothing to do with Donaldson, The Travis trade was meant for this season. My guess is he found the free agent options lacking and got a player with a decent floor to be used as soon as he's needed. He will be brought up shortly after either he succeeds in the minors or the MLB options fail.
  5. Gorlak
    He's better than replacement even if you made him face every lefty, He would have been a 1.5 WAR platoon partner. Smoak is a replacement player who does nothing well. Linds only downside was his cost and that another roster spot had to be spent on a platoon partner. A Lind/Valencia platoon would have been one of the best DH spots in baseball.
  6. Gorlak
    Agree and it was a good move, Hopefully he climbs quickly.
  7. Gorlak
    None of them were noticeably better than internal options, surely not 5 mil better.
  8. Gorlak
    I would take the other side of that bet. Not sure who all has run out of options, but likely somebody he would be comfortable losing to make the team better. Really I think AA thinks using high upside pitching prospects he can have a decent bullpen for no money.
  9. Gorlak
    That's not the main thing that makes somebody a starter over a reliever.
  10. Gorlak
    Who would you have signed? All options in free agency had big question marks.
  11. Gorlak
    In that case I agree, but that would have cost talent, not money.
  12. Gorlak
    Oversimplification is not great analyses.
  13. Gorlak
    With Sanchez, Norris, and Hoffman, adding a mid rotation starter would have been at best a waste of money and at worst block a better, cheaper pitcher.
  14. Gorlak
    I would take the other side of that bet. The biggest variable is the quality of the players and at this point Jays just have a bunch of warm bodies. My guess though is AA knows this and plans on bringing up his best pitching prospects, Castro first followed by Osuna. I just think people overreacted to the bullpen falling apart last season and now think bullpens are too fluky to worry about, I think that's a fallacy.
  15. Gorlak
    The fact that a bullpen that's supposed to be good can be bad doesn't make it likely that a bad bullpen will be good. The idea that the bullpen is a coin flip regardless of what players they have is silly. Small sample size doesn't mean outcomes are completely random.
  16. Gorlak
    True. He got around what the Jays would have offered, but with a better chance to win, so likely that scenario never played out. Same could be said about the grumbling he did.
  17. Gorlak
    I would also say Janssen wanting to test free agency may have made him too embarrassed to come back when his market didn't materialize.
  18. Gorlak
    I guess AA thinks his decline was more than just his illness, or at least they didn't want to bet money on him. 5 mil would be good value if he returns to being a 1 WAR reliever.
  19. Gorlak
    I'm just saying this team with Lind would be better than this team with Navarro.
  20. Gorlak
    His return wouldn't be useful to this 25 man roster, but he's movable. Just in case money was the issue.
  21. Gorlak
    I'll be pleasantly surprised if Estrada is worth more than 1 WAR.
  22. Gorlak
    I get the Saunders thing, but they could have moved Navarro instead of Lind, Wouldn't have brought in Estrada, but dollars would have been close. I guess the trade hinges on whether Estrada is useful or not, My bet is not.
  23. Gorlak
    I doubt the Donaldson trade would be considered into it since Norris and Sanchez replaced them on the depth chart. Saunders for Happ did factor into it though.
  24. Gorlak
    1.6 WAR last season as per fangraphs. Hard to see Estrada surpass that as a reliever.
  25. Gorlak
    Especially since a DH that can hit righties is lacking on this roster.
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