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Tim Beckham was non tendered. He was bad in 2018 but there is a whole laundry list of players I’d rather see as a utility infielder rather than Urena so he seems intriguing for that reason.
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General 2018 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
glory replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Solarte non tendered. Everyone else tendered. -
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Hmmm, hire a goober to be the GM, and he makes s***** moves (or about to). Never saw that coming.
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Shatkins has been targeting ready or near ready prospects lately. I’d guess maybe a C+/B- prospect who another team has no room for that can be a realistic call up in 2019. Maybe a fringe five guy.
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I could see the Astros trading for Stroman. Fits their timeline and with their cheating....I mean player development ways Stro would likely take a huge step forward. But yeah I'd hold on to Stro at this rate if teams view him as a buy low option.
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General 2018 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
glory replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
At least now we will get to see Vlad try to run from 1st to home on a single to left field. -
Burch Smith has Shatkins written all over it.
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Low key shot by JD there. Clearly there was no way Shatkins was going to give him the QO if there was even a tiny chance he'd come back. I think they just wanted to move on entirely.
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If JD was given the QO, there's no guarantee the Braves would have signed him with the value of a lost pick involved. Then again it's AA who doesn't even sign most of his first round picks, so who knows. He may not have even cared about the pick.
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Looks like he knew no team was going to give him more than a year so he jumped on the highest one year offer. Worked out pretty well for him. Gets the same salary as last season despite missing most of the year. Problem for him is that even if he has a great 2019, he will hit next year's market at age 34. His chances of making big money long term is probably gone.
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I don't anymore. I stopped shortly after Shatkins took over since my head was exploding too often. I'm just warning everyone else who might catch some of those comments. It will be really bad.
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Yeah this narrative is going to be really, really annoying. If JD has a bounce back year, watch out.
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JD close to deal with the Braves according to Rosey. Damn, the Sportsnet comments section is going to be more of a cesspool than usual after this.
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The past couple of years it feels that way. ANother thing the NBA does better than MLB. Everyone can't wait until the summer with the NBA since there is the draft, free agency, etc. In baseball, every team is trying to outcheap the other, which means FA's linger for months, and front offices now think the same, so even trading seems like it would be a lot harder. Definitely lacking the excitement of years past.
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I wonder how realistic this is for the Jays. They’re willing to go with their young position players who are mostly cheap and Shatkins never spends any money on the bullpen regardless, so seems like whatever money they have to spend would be enough to make a strong offer here. MLBTR projects 6/42. Years are too high but AAV seems reasonable enough. He’d be there for Vlad’s years so if he’s any good it would fit the team’s timeframe. Of course he will go to the Dodgers, but it’s the boring part of the offseason.
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Just posting this from the time of the deal in case anyone wants to lump me in with the Tulo lovin' crowd.
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One of the things I distinctly remember about that off season was that the Angels were willing to give up both Ervin Santana and Dan Haren for a sack of s***. They literally just wanted out of their contracts and didn't care about the return. I remember wanting the Jays to go that route (expensive for a year but would eat up innings and stay healthy unlike all their other starters). That was also the same off season that Martin signed a 2/17 deal with the Pirates, which the Jays could have easily beaten. Point is, there were deals out there. Maybe not as sexy as the Miami/Dickey ones looked at the time, but more sensible and could have used the prospect bullets for later. Not saying it would have been easy or anything, but I don't think that was their only way of building a quality team around Bats/Edwin.
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That's the one thing I will give to AA. He takes a lot of chances, where if it works then it's great (JD) but if it doesn't then it's really bad (Tulo, Reyes/Johnson, Dickey, etc). Unfortunately other than Donaldson a lot of his risks were trash here, but hard to screw up what he inherited there, and adding Trout would obviously be a great move.
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Yeah I think people are making too big a deal out of this. Maybe the jays lose a player or two. It happens when you have a deep system and can’t protect everyone. The chances of it coming back and hurting the Jays (or any other team) long term is pretty slim. Johan Santana situations are about as unlikely as humanly possible. Needle in a haystack. The Giants never shed a tear for losing Joe Biagini who actually did really well for a playoff team in 2016, and that’s a rare example of a Rule 5 pick actually working out. I think we will survive.
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Ah yes, the 2013 Blue Jays. The year a broken down Ricky Romero, Chad Jenkins, Aaron Laffey, Chien-Ming Wang, Ramon Ortiz, Todd Redmond, Sean Nolin, and Esmil Rogers started a combined 51 games.
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Yeah seriously, Smoak’s deal is an overpayment given the market for first basemen. Even a trade will yield nothing. In two years Betts is a free agent. f*** over Boston and get him.
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Yeah it's getting to the point where we can actually start writing projected A+/AA/AAA lineups and rotations well in advance because there are so many prospects in the system. Shatkins has barely traded any prospects since they took over and have added a lot of them.
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This is the right answer. The left side of the infield by 2020 will be Vlad/Bo. Where Gurriel fits in remains to be seen but he is not the long term answer at short either way. I guess they are willing to try him there in 2019 and see what happens. I’d rather have a real SS out there especially if we are trying to increase the value of our GB starters but maybe Montoyo will shift enough to compensate for it.
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With Paulino being so injury prone, Thornton's stuff playing up in shorter outings, etc, the Jays should definitely utilize some creativity to get the most out of their arms. Paulino and Thornton both throwing 120-ish innings each and providing good value would be a damn good scenario. Neither one will be a 200 ip workhorse, and both might be too good to be one inning guys, so play around with it. We are not beating the Yankees/Red Sox any time soon by being conventional.