I agree with this. Given the recent direction and investment in the team, I fully expect Rogers wants the Jays to be competitive down the stretch and ideally make the playoffs.
There is obvious potential for this to fail and set us back a bit (by losing FA's for nothing), but really, outside of Gausman, I'm not sure our pending FA's are going to fetch much on the trade market. Varsho could, as could someone like Hoffman, Rogers or Clement - but I suspect that risk is worth the potential reward of filling the dome and/or making the playoffs - and once we're in - anything can happen. It helps that we're willing to spend like the big boys these days (although a new CBA may change how much power we retain on that front).