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Baseball Trade Values assigns $60 million surplus value to Marte which is far from insurmountable for the Blue Jays. I think the stumbling block could arise if the Diamondbacks were looking for close to major league ready talent as most of the Blue Jays better prospects are in the low minors at this point.
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I think Ernie may well be a plus defender at short stop. In his 584 innings at short stop as a Blue Jay (approximately half of a full season's worth of work) he's produced 9 DRS and 7 OAA.
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I have no doubt that the quality of facilities is a factor in free agency decisions, just not the primary one. I suspect if the Blue Jays featured the substandard facilities of yesteryear Ohtani wouldn't have even given the team a sniff in free agency.
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True this is the guy that is suggesting that the Blue Jays have no shot at signing either of Tucker or Bo and are sure to be shopping in the bargain aisle this offseason.
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Well Ohtani was also spotted visiting Blue Jays facilities as well and we all know how that turned out so let's pump the brakes a little bit.
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I don't think Berrios would completely stand in the way of a trade if he were to lose his rotation spot but it would certainly complicate matters if he were able to essentially choose his destination.
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I think Barger has the necessary toolset to become very good outfielder in time but he'll need more reps to improve his reads/routes sufficiently.
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I would be completely surprised if the Blue Jays managed to ship out a couple of bad value contracts for a cost controlled superstar.
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I think YRod was a pretty effective leverage arm for most of the season but maybe ran out of gas towards the end of the year.
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Blue Jays sign Cody Ponce to 3 year deal
max silver replied to Laika's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I think if Tiedemann cracks the major league roster this season it will be as a reliever as he isn't built up to handle any kind of starter's workload. -
Blue Jays sign Cody Ponce to 3 year deal
max silver replied to Laika's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yesavage pitched 140 total innings, he's built up for a full season's workload but will just need a bit of throttling back on workload at times. -
My concern with soft tossing relievers is that they often have little margin for error once the stuff starts to slip even a little bit. We saw this with Cimber as he became awfully easy to square up once his stuff dipped a touch and I think that Sandlin was starting to experience this as well. For Baseball Savant I don't know of a way to display percentile rankings for a partial season sample, but it is possible to do Statcast searches for specific date ranges on Baseball Savant. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search
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This just doesn't make a lot of sense. If the Blue Jays don't choose to spend $200 million on Bo Bichette why would this disallow them from spending $150 on Alex Bregman? This argument seems logical enough in the context of Ohtani/Soto but for players firmly rooted in a lower tier it stops really making a lot of sense.
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I'm not familiar with Ben Verlander but I like the cut of his jib.
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It will be fascinating to see how Imai's stuff and arsenal plays against major league hitters. Comparisons to present day Max Scherzer and Luis Castillo aren't particularly exciting but if he's able to squeeze a little more juice out of his arsenal by pitching near max effort a little more often I do like his chances of having a lot of success out of the rotation.
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I think the club is finally positioned to catch the big fish again on the position player side. The last time they attracted the top of the market was the George Springer acquisition I think the club is really well positioned to become a Dodgers of the North and bring aboard Kyle Tucker.
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I don't think you properly appreciate how dominant Helsley has been historically. He was MLB's 2nd most valuable reliever by FWAR from the 2022-2024 seasons, and even with the poor showing last year is still tied for 5th place among relievers from 2022-2025. The stuff is fully intact and it's pretty well known that he was tipping his pitches last season so he's a prime candidate for positive regressions.
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I don't agree with this in the slightest. The Blue Jays have a giant Bo Bichette sized hole in their lineup right now and that easily warrants a Bo/Tucker acquisition if they want to replicate the lineup depth they enjoyed during the 2025 season. You could say that maybe Santander will bounce back at least somewhat but maybe this is cancelled out by a touch of Springer regression, and Barger is still a little bit of an unknown etc. This team is in the middle of a competitive window and I don't think it's time for them to rest on their laurels and not maximize the strength of the team as I believe the team is very well positioned to land top free agent targets given the extended playoff run.
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That was just absurd, as the team was one of the contenders for Soto and had a lot of other holes to fill. On top of that the team was a reported finalist in the Alonso sweepstakes as well so I think there was even more money available than what was spent.
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Kwan is a nice player but I just don't think he represents enough of an upgrade over a Nathan Lukes/Davis Schneider platoon to justify the acquisition cost. If you knew you were acquiring the 130 wRC+ guy as he was in 2 of his 4 seasons then he's an awesome fit, but if you are acquiring the dude who was a 99 wRC+ bat in 2 of his 4 seasons he loses an awful lot of shine.
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Yeah I recall thinking that Rogers was dramatically underpaying the team for the TV rights but supposedly MLB determined it was fair market value. As long as ownership gives the team the necessary funding to run a top tier organization in all facets this doesn't boil down to anything more than a Rogers accounting procedure.
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And 11.2% k rate last season. Arenado is a slap hitter now and may have well been swinging a pool noodle as his quality of contact is in the crapper in recent seasons. I think he's a prime candidate for the old man swing out of your shoes to trade some extra strikeouts for extra thump kind of approach at this point of his career.
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Let's see if he passes the notoriously difficult Oriole's physical.
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That's just Shi's opinion and Shi doesn't seem particularly plugged in with the Blue Jays front office most of the time. I think the chances the team doesn't add another legitimate bat are very slim at best so fingers crossed Shi is just stating yet another incorrect guesswork type of opinion like past offseasons.
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I'd rather just take my chances with Berrios bouncing back personally. The Blue Jays can run a well above average platoon of Barger and Clement at third base and receive excellent combined value, and Arenado has been dreadful with the stick in recent seasons. I do recall seeing it mentioned that Arenado intended to work at Driveline this offseason to improve his swing speed so maybe he can bounce back a bit, but it's a risk that I don't think is worth taking as I think the Blue Jays would most likely be worsening the third base position just to save a little bit of future payroll.
