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    Atkins seems like one of those guys who has trouble making eye contact with people. Doesn’t surprise me at all that he’d operate like this.
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    The Jays clearly did not want to deal with Pearson when he has no minor league options next year. It did start to feel like if Pearson ever panned out it would be somewhere else. Let's see what the Cubs can do with him. Personally, I would have kept him and stretched him out in the Spring. Chances are that would have failed too but it's not like the Jays are swimming in SP depth, so it would have been worth a shot. Either way this seems like a whole bunch of meh all the way around.
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    Double A SS based on their top 30 is probably Josh Rivera, and his numbers are ass. Will wait to see what the return is. Pearson isn’t exactly a high value asset so not expecting much.
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    Kikuchi for Trey Sweeney and a low A prospect is going to hurt a little bit.
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    I’d trust a bum on the street over Morosi, so I won’t buy this until someone reputable posts it, but I’d be pleasantly surprised if they traded Green. Hope it happens and they get something decent.
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    "You can cross off 4th OF from 2025's needs list." - Ross Atkins, probably.
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    I can't get over how insane it would be to not trade Vlad this trade deadline, and then follow that up by not extending him in the off season. Is the team seriously going to keep him for one more year because they want to contend in 2025 and then either trade him next July or let him test free agency? If Shapiro green lights that approach, then he can take the first bus out of town.
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    My guess is Hays platoons with Marsh, and they still try to acquire a CF.
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    0.7 WAR, 219 IP, 4.79 ERA, 4.26 FIP Richards as a Blue Jay over the last 3.5 years. Let's just be thankful he doesn't have any arb years left.
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    There's definitely a package with the Mariners that would make sense for both sides. The Jays (Rogers/Shapiro/both) don't have the balls to do it, but the M's are the team that has the need, desperation, and prospect capital to make this type of move worth it from the Jays end.
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    0 prospects and for now only 1 bad contract (Berrios). Not a great spot for a new president/GM, but better than Shapiro hiring a new GM to try to put lipstick on a pig in 2025, and then a new president hired in 2026 being stuck paying Atkins and that new GM before he can even bring his own people in. At this rate, I think Shapiro is the one that needs to go, so if Rogers lets him go after the season (they won't), then that might be the best course of action. Having a lame duck team president with no incentive to care about anything beyond 2025 on a team in the Jays current position is just a really bad situation.
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    The Mariners might be the team that would overpay for Vlad, and they have some interesting prospects (Ford, Montes, Emerson, Young). Would be curious to see what they would have offered if Vlad was available.
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    As I mentioned in another thread, with Shapiro only having a year left on his deal, if he hasn't already agreed to some sort of extension, then he shouldn't be hiring the new GM. So if Shapiro is back in 2025 minus an agreement to stay longer, then unfortunately it makes more sense to just keep Atkins for one more year. Then if 2025 ends up like many of us are expecting it to, then they can get rid of both of them and start fresh.
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    What’s interesting about the extension talk is that Shapiro is a FA the same time as Vlad is. Maybe they already have a mutual understanding that Shapiro is staying beyond 2025, but if the Jays need to extend their star and (presumably) replace their GM, then a guy with 1 year left on his deal probably shouldn’t be making either of those calls.
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    Yeah I think he wants 10/300 or something along those lines. Wouldn’t shock me if the Jays gave it to him.
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    According to Robert Murray, the Jays are listening on offers for IKF. Said “so many teams” were willing to give him a 2 year deal in the winter. Getting a 2 WAR out of him in half a season and then trading him for something useful would be a good outcome.
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    I remember being really excited about Michael Taylor based on his minor league numbers, before he was flipped for Wallace (which I hated). Both ended up being nothing.
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    That's amazing.
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    In a market as big as Toronto, I don’t think that’s true. Fans want to see a winner, and they will move on to the next “franchise player” when the time comes. I’m sure casuals will be upset if Vlad is traded, but if the team is good again in 2-3 years, I don’t see it having any long lasting impact. On the flip side, if the team has Vlad, even an extended Vlad, on a bunch of s***** teams trying to compete over the next 2 years, will attendance still be up? I don’t know about that. Unless fans really love the stadium renovations, I think interest will drop regardless. Jays saw a ~1 million fan drop from 2017 to 2018. The 2024 attendance is likely in part due to the renovations and in part due to the 2021-23 run, but next season’s attendance will be a real test. With that said, if the Jays aren’t trading him now, and Rogers wants to keep him, then extend him. If you want to dangle a carrot at free agents, at least having an extended Vlad shows that another “star” will be there for a while.
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    Yes because the Jays would definitely go to their farm system over s***** vets. The 2024 season has proven that. I don't even think I was hyping up the genius of the Orioles FO. What they are doing is smart but I'm not sure how many teams would operate the same way (respect the vetrins and all that). Maybe most would, I don't know, but I don't think the Jays would have. Hell, I don't think the Jays trade Mountcastle if they had him now, much less if they were sitting in a playoff spot.
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    They are justified in wanting to trade them, especially with their internal prospect depth. I'm just pointing out how sad that is as a Jays fan that a 1st place team can recognize that but a last place Jays team is deeming Chris Bassitt critical to next season's roster. The difference in player development, front office quality, etc, is night and day.
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