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  1. burlingtonbandit
    Atkins has been less than stellar with day to day roster management of the club even going back to last season. His performance justifies the call up even not taking into account the corpses they have been throwing out at SS lately. Even when he was on the Majors he did pretty well.
  2. burlingtonbandit
    Should have accepted a salary cap when they had a chance. Now there is a cap with no floor.
  3. burlingtonbandit
    Solarte has to be the slowest middle IF in the MLB. Guy is slower than both Catchers.
  4. burlingtonbandit
    Buck is a great story teller. Shulman keeps him on track while him and Tabler just go on about nothing.
  5. burlingtonbandit
    Apparently Smith is the best defender of the middle IF prospects and projects to be a good defensive SS.
  6. burlingtonbandit
    Dan and Buck is honestly a pleasure to listen to. Buck for as much hate as he gets as a PxP is a pretty good colour commentator. And Shulman is fantastic obviously.
  7. burlingtonbandit
    Its the same thing with the poor minor league conditions. Any one owner can pour a few Million bucks so that minor leaguers are better taken care of but no one wants to do it because then it forces the other owners into having to do it.
  8. burlingtonbandit
    Kevin Smith called up to Dunedin.
  9. burlingtonbandit
    Cool story.
  10. burlingtonbandit
    I'd love Liberatore but sounds like he will go top 10. I don't mind going with the "best" prep hitter. The track record of pitchers at the top of the draft isn't great. Look back at the 15 draft and the pitchers were Dillon Tate, Tyler Jay and Carson Fulmer. Now compare that to Swanson, Bregman, Rodgers, Tucker, Benintendi and Randolph. Go back to 14 and the pitchers were Aiken, Kolek, Rodon, Nola, Freeland and Hoffman. Hitters were Schwarber, Gordon, Jackson, Conforto, Turner (13th overall). You can go back to other drafts and there are a lot of big bust pitchers at the top of the draft.
  11. burlingtonbandit
    Well the contract is likely structered so he makes less than $2 Million each of those first 3 years. But that does set a new precedent for all other contract negotiations to be compared to. At the same time you do what's best for your team and if it came down to 10/100 or not signing him at all you sign him to the 10 year deal.
  12. burlingtonbandit
    I think he accepts that if he knows he's brought up now. Then the contract starts next season. Not much incentive for the Jays to do that though, you may as well offer 10/100 if you are going to do that. Those FA years could be worth $40-$50 Million per once he becomes a FA. Again there aren't really any comparables since generational type prospects hardly ever sign this early.
  13. burlingtonbandit
    More than JD will.
  14. burlingtonbandit
    Solarte is one of the slowest players on the team. Only Smoak and Morales are slower in sprint speed.
  15. burlingtonbandit
    I think FOs are smart now that if there was a pre-arb extension no matter the team's market size it makes sense to do a deal. The Cubs tried to talk to Bryant about an extension and he basically said no thanks. Players and agents know how much those prime FA years are worth, they aren't dumb anymore. Pretty sure Acuna even turned down a deal, but I could be wrong. I'm saying a 10/100 year deal makes sense for both sides if its all guarenteed. But 6/40 with 4 Club options? Zero chance in hell Vlad takes that.
  16. burlingtonbandit
    Those players all died, not exactly an injury. And 3 of them were were due to themselves being reckless. Do the player's families even get to keep $ from the contract?
  17. burlingtonbandit
    Unless he gets injured so badly he's paralyzed or forced to retire he's going to get tendered a contract each year. Like what young position player star has had an injury like that in the last 10 years? If its 6/40 with no team options then yeah he probably takes it but theres not enough upside for the Jays to even offer that really. Maybe with 2 club options at $20-25 Million. You just don't see top 5 prospects sign pre-arb long term deals often anymore. (Correa, Bryant, Harper, Lindor, Betts, Boagarts etc..) Non Boras agents have finally realized how lopsided they are for the teams and your best deal is to become a FA as young as possible like Heyward.
  18. burlingtonbandit
    If it was a guaranteed $100M then yeah I think he takes it. If it was 6/40 with 4 club options than no it wouldn't make sense. Lindor turned down $100M after the 2016 Season I believe and that was with 5 years left before FA. Vladdy really doesn't have to worry about $ thanks to his father like most of the other Latin Americans so perhaps he and his agency prefers to wait it out. Him being 19 honestly works in his favour. If he is called up this year he's a FA when he's 25 years old.
  19. burlingtonbandit
    Man Biagini is terrible now. Not even worthy of a MLB roster spot.
  20. burlingtonbandit
    Garcia seems to pout a lot.
  21. burlingtonbandit
    His throws from behind the plate have been pretty bad this year. Throws from SS are completely different though.
  22. burlingtonbandit
    There's significant risk in giving guaranteed $ to a 19 year old kid too. Does he take defense and his weight/shape as seriously if he has $100 Million in back pocket. What about all the distractions Toronto has to offer. (They'll be there anyway but having all that money at such a young age adds to it). I still would be in favour of signing him now given that you could be looking at $40-$50 Million per FA year once he hits FA but all factors the FO puts into consideration I'm sure. No way he signs for 6/40 with $20M club options though.
  23. burlingtonbandit
    Martin has a great glove but curious to see how the arm and range is. He's 35 years old
  24. burlingtonbandit
    Has the Super 2 cutoff passed? There is no way you can wait until Late April 2019 so you may as well bring him up now. I'd rather see him for 4 months this year than 3.
  25. burlingtonbandit
    Tepera has the Yips all in his head.
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