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  1. glory
    Yeah I don't see anything about a roster move happening today. Plus, it's not Friday, so there can't be a move today.
  2. glory
    If Jackson signed here he'd probably start in LF (and lead off because "speed"). Saunders is such an uncertainty.
  3. glory
    Add wins wherever you can. I just don't think the Jays have the money.
  4. glory
    Shapiro will handle Bautista and Encarnacion differently in terms of PR. In the case of those two, they are long time Blue Jays and realistic (in terms of years/dollars) to sign. Maybe not probable, but realistic. With Price, he was a two month rental that the Jays had no chance of signing given the type of deal everyone knew he was going to sign. If Shapiro said "we want to bring him back and plan to offer him a contract", only to see Price predictably sign elsewhere, what possible impact would it have had on attendance or interest? The fans that are whining on social media will be there when the team makes the playoffs, or disappear when they don't. It's that simple. You don't cater to fans. You put a consistent winner on the field and fans will show up.
  5. glory
    I think Bautista and Encarnacion will both get four years. Age 36 (Bautista) and age 34 (EE) is old to hit free agency. I doubt either one gets more than four years. AAV for both somewhere between $20-23M, assuming they have typical seasons in 2016. Neither one will re-sign with Toronto, is my guess. The free agent market is crazy, and the moment those two hit the open market and the Jays have to compete with other teams with contract offers (looking at you, Dombrowski), it's going to get very rich. I'm interested to see how Shapiro/Atkins go about replacing those two in 2017 if they both leave. That's about 8 or 9 wins for $24m combined that they'll need to replace. The Jays had it really good with those two on those contracts. Too bad they only have it for one more season.
  6. glory
    Shapiro should have at least made an effort to bring him back.
  7. glory
    What if he made an insulting offer and Price's agent made that public, too? Not saying he would have but my point is who cares what the agent says? If the Jays had no chance to sign him (and if they weren't going to go above $200m, they had no chance), then I just don't see what benefit there would have been to pretending there was a chance. Shapiro could have been more optic friendly with his approach this winter but this scenario had no real benefit to the Jays. Estrada, Happ, and Chavez combined make less than Price and the Jays still lack depth. It was never going to happen.
  8. glory
    If Shapiro came out and said "we want to bring him back", what exactly would have happened? Would fan reaction have been kinder to him? I'm not sure what purpose that would have served other than outright lying to the fans for no reason. Price was not going to sign for less than $200m so your point about negotiating a reasonable price makes no sense. There was never a chance to sign him for a reasonable price. That was the whole point. If Shapiro came out and said he's after Cespedes right now, and then Cespedes signs with another team, who's going to care that Shapiro expressed interest? It's a meaningless exercise. There are better ways to improve optics.
  9. glory
    I don't think anyone would disagree with having him develop more in the minors. Putting him in the MLB rotation when they have six guys that are clearly better than him is the issue. If it's either Sanchez in the big league rotation or Sanchez in the big league pen, then you'd have to pick bullpen because unless he turns into a completely different pitcher in spring training, chances are he'll hurt the team as a SP.
  10. glory
    Typically using bad starters in the rotation, even if they're young and cheap, doesn't help in building sustainable winners. With that said, putting Sanchez in AAA as a starter would be the ideal situation. If AA's regime was still around, then I'd just stick him in the pen and not worry about it, but Atkins/Shapiro have a history of developing SP's. See if they can work some Cleveland SP magic on him in AAA. If not, then put him in the pen long-term. With his current skillset, he's a reliever. If they work on him and maybe help him develop a swing and miss pitch, then the chances of him becoming an MLB starter increase.
  11. glory
    If the money is there, then they should sign Cespedes regardless of what it means for Bautista. Unfortunately, the money probably isn't there.
  12. glory
    Yeah, Donaldson won't be giving any hometown discount. If the Jays sign him, it will be a huge contract. Either way, it's hard to see a downside. If they lock him up, great. If not, they have him for three more seasons regardless.
  13. glory
    McCown made an uninformed suggestion to Shapiro during the radio interview. Shapiro gave a diplomatic answer instead of outright dismissing it. The next day it's a "rumor". Definitely clickbait. I doubt the Jays are even considering it.
  14. glory
    Subbing Gallardo for Dickey and losing a pick in the process would be terrible. There's no way Dickey will be able to fetch the equivalent of a first round pick in a trade, and Gallardo over Dickey is an insignificant roster change. Makes no sense.
  15. glory
    Apparently the Jays did not want to go over what Chris Davis got in arbitration ($7.05M), which is a record, but damn that's a small amount to fight over. Chavez wants $4m and the Jays offered $3.6m. Either way that's way below MLBTR's projection.
  16. glory
    They beat Storen's projection but they get reimbursed the difference between Storen and Revere anyway. So far, they have lost a little under $700k between actual and projected figures for Cecil, Saunders, Delabar, and Loup. I won't count Smoak since they may have been factoring his projected arb total from 2015 before he got non-tendered into the equation, in which case MLBTR would have lowballed that.
  17. glory
    $1.05m for Loup. Jays have gone over MLBTR's projection on nearly everyone so far (Saunders got the same as projected).
  18. glory
    Cecil probably sees where the market is and wants his turn next winter. If he has a typical Cecil season, he's going to get paid.
  19. glory
    Delabar signs for 835k, per Heyman.
  20. glory
    Keep Dickey and keep the pick instead of signing Gallardo. I mean, the difference between the two next season likely won't be significant, but the difference between the return for Dickey and the draft pick might be. Unless the team is getting a good player for Dickey (doesn't seem likely), it wouldn't make much sense to make that swap.
  21. glory
    I wasn't judging the quality of the team, just the amount of time they had left to make up a lot of ground.
  22. glory
    Shapiro mentioning the lack of young SP's in AAA could mean Sanchez starting in AAA is an option. That would certainly be the smart thing to do for his development as a SP, as long as they feel comfortable with whoever is replacing him in the pen.
  23. glory
    The Jays were much better than their record at the time, but it was still 60 games remaining in the season and 7-8 games to make up. That wasn't a whole lot of time. They needed to play .750 ball to make it and they did. That doesn't mean it wasn't a huge leap of faith to make that deal(s). If they were going to make a trade, it should have been something like the Fiers/Gomez trade the Astros pulled off. At least they would have gotten more seasons out of the players they received. A Hail mary for a 2 month rental when you're staring at a 7-8 game deficit with 2 months to go isn't exactly a safe move, regardless of run differential. Also, making that trade for a 1st/2nd WC game would have been horrendous. YOu don't make that trade for a coin flip game. It was likely part desperation (knowing he was out the door and trying to make a run) and part hoping the 13 head to head games remaining with the Yankees could mean the division was still in play. He guessed right in hindsight, but still wasn't a high percentage move in terms of the division.
  24. glory
    The Jays were .500 with 60 games to go and 7 games back of the division (or somewhere around that) when they traded for Price. It was a Hail Mary that worked.
  25. glory
    Gallardo plus losing a pick? Not happening.
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