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  1. Yeah all this talk of collusion would have never happened if Boras just had his guys sign the ridiculous contracts they were offered. I hope the owners and players are smart enough not to let Scott f'n Boras cause a lockout. Just to reiterate, trade Sanchez if/when he bounces back. Dealing with Boras for three years sounds like damn torture.
  2. Shapiro's view on relief pitching is awesome. A relief ace (Osuna) is necessary, but for the middle relief crop, just find some guys with great K rates/velocity and see who sticks for a year.
  3. Loaiza's 2003 season right after leaving the Jays still stings.
  4. I think the Jays are probably a .500 team in '18, but I want them to make the playoffs now if only to shut Krylian up.
  5. So let's say he stays healthy the entire time. If he doesn't opt out, that means he pitched poorly or doesn't feel he can get what is left on his deal (or more) on the open market, so the team is stuck with an overpaid player who is not worth the contract. If he does opt out, that means he can get more than what is left on his deal, meaning the team is going to miss out on any additional surplus value the rest of his existing contract may have provided. Neither scenario benefits the team.
  6. Yeah I don't know why fans think opt outs are good for a team. Sure if a player opts out after 2-3 years than it mitigates the risk of a longer deal, but if Darvish blows his arm out after a year, he's not opting out, and if he pitches so well that the contract is surplus value, then he is opting out, so I don't see where the Cubs benefit. Still a good deal for Darvish, though.
  7. I think it's a good plan, but they still need someone to throw innings in 2019 aside from Stroman (and I'm not assuming anything about Sanchez until he throws a full season after that blister issue). If there is some rotation option available at a depressed cost on a 2-3 year deal, it's still worth pursuing even if the team wants to avoid long term deals. Of course, they could have pursued it and got shot down, so in that case a one year stop gap would make sense. Unless they can find a suitable trade, like for McHugh or someone like that.
  8. Interesting that the Jays are either going for one year deals to older players (Estrada extension, Grandy, possibly the fifth starter) or trading for players with many years of pre-FA$ control left (Diaz, Solarte, Grichuk). No in between. They are also stacking up the AAA team with near ready prospects. This seems like the type of set up where the front office is bracing itself for a mid season sell off and don't want to commit to too many older players, while at the same time having cheap fill ins to take over positions in 2019, 2020, etc. They may not even want a free agent starter on a three year deal. Maybe the Morales deal has made them scared.
  9. Garcia or Vargas would make sense. Dickey would as well but dammit I don't want to see him pitch for the Jays again.
  10. Wish the Jays traded Sanchez last year the moment he hired that douche to be his agent.
  11. My guess is he will try for something like 5/175, not counting 2018. If the Jays didn't have Martin and Tulo, then I might be ok with one really big and potentially bad (down the road) contract, but with those two plus Morales making $51m in 2018, $52M in 2019, and then Tulo still being around in 2020, it would be a few years before JD became the sole bad contract.
  12. Pitchers as top draft picks are so risky. If the Jays ever got a #1 pick and it fell on a year where the best player was a pitcher, I'd be nervous AF.
  13. If they do ship Morales out (which would be a damn miracle) then I think they'd rather just put Pearce at DH than Jose.
  14. Any chance the Royals do Hammel for Morales? Maybe if the Jays eat up half of the 2019 salary? There has to be something between the two teams that doesn't involve Ian Kennedy's s*** contract going to the Jays.
  15. They have Freeman locked up for four more years. That is how many years Jose and Edwin had left when AA went bonkers over here. I'd be shocked if he continues to rebuild beyond 2018. My guess is by this time next year he will start trading off a bunch of prospects for short term help. But again, maybe he's changed. And the Jays were not close after 2012. They had like 90 losses and wasn't that the year every starting pitcher had to have surgery simultaneously? They were bad, man.
  16. AA handed the #1 ranked farm system is like giving a million dollars to a crack addict. Maybe Friedman changed him, though.
  17. Man, I'm really starting to believe there is a chance the Jays can dump Morales on them. Come on Hosmer, choose the Padres!
  18. Yeah seriously. High BABIPs and high K's all over the place for the Brewers. Getting Yelich and Cain while selling high on their existing outfielders looks like a damn smart idea.
  19. If Shatkins was after Yelich even after acquiring Grichuk and Grandy, then maybe Pillar actually is available. I didn't think the Jays would actually trade him this winter, but if they somehow got Yelich, then we probably would have seen a Yelich/Grichuk/Granderson OF, unless they flipped Grichuk in that deal or a separate deal, which wouldn't make sense since Atkins was slobbering all over him in interviews and he seems to fit what the front office looks for in hitters. Pillar obviously doesn't. To me KP is a ticking time bomb. Dude's value is going to plummet one of these years and I'd rather it not be in a Jays uniform. Sell high dammit.
  20. Yeah, the Marlins clearly target certain players regardless of how they are ranked, based on the Ozuna trade. Interesting nonetheless to see the Jays were right there. I wonder what their offer was.
  21. Damn, they asked for Vlad, then settled for much less with another team. That sucks. A package centered around Alford for Yelich would have been incredible. The Marlins gon be the Marlins, though.
  22. Yeah that sounds like a plan. Unfortunately with the Jays signing Grandy and trading for Grichuk, I think they already got their answer from Cain.
  23. Sounds like any team that offers five years will get him, but doubt the Jays would even consider that at this point. If the Jays signed Cain and then traded Pillar and Pearce for cheap SP/RP depth (to save money/add Cain's salary to the roster), is the team better, worse, or the same?
  24. Pillar for Salazar would be awesome from an upside standpoint, but yeah I don't see the Indians doing it, even though from a WAR standpoint it's close. Any team that needs a CF can just sign Dyson if they need a cheap short term one.
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