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  1. max silver
    Basically everyone here is willing to see a new front office group brought in. The GM in particular had basically no support after the way last season unfolded. Having said that I think that Atkins still deserves credit for putting together a successful off-season so far. I'm grading his off-season based on whether he has successfully utilized the assets given to him. That's cool that you think Ed Rogers negotiated the free agent deals entirely in his own and put together a bunch of trades as well. I wasn't aware that he was an MLB general manager now.
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    I guess I won this debate since you literally have nothing to offer in retort.
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    The Blue Jays have had a similar amount of success as the Yankees and Mets over the last half decade, albeit without any post season success. Both of those teams have had payrolls magnitudes above what the Blue Jays enjoyed until this offseason. The Phillies have had a ton of post season success based on largely building their team through free agency. I would place the Blue Jays front office a tier below. You are acting like a literal single poor season negates all of what the current front office has accomplished. The Dodgers are the gold standard in MLB and heads and shoulders above everyone else.
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    Come on man, don't intentionally be obtuse. Both of Atlanta and Baltimore still wanted to sign Hoffman as a reliever, just at a reduced rate compared to if he were signed as a starter. It was recently reported that the Royals were serious suitors for Santander but the Blue Jays were too far along for him to really consider their offer. Scherzer held a showcase for teams with plenty of teams in attendance to watch him throw. It's pretty disingenuous to suggest nobody else was interested based on how desperate teams tend to be for innings out of their rotation. He received a nearly identical deal to comparable aging rotation arms such as Verlander, Cobb and Morton. An effective offseason is going to consist of a combination of trades and free agent signings. The Blue Jays have accomplished plenty of both. Blue Jays ownership could not acquire players on their own without an effective front office to make it happen.
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    Are you going to make the same claims about the Mets, Yankees, Phillies and Dodgers, all who spend more than the Blue Jays? The Blue Jays market size is comparable to those clubs, and aside from the Dodgers you can't exactly deny that those teams have largely been assembled by their ownership groups allowing their front offices to spend maximum money.
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    And conversely you'll go to extreme lengths to avoid giving even a shred of credit to the front office when it's deserved. It's obvious that you made up your mind a long time ago that nothing the front office accomplished could ever be good enough for you, and the tact of literally giving 100% of the credit to ownership is just more of this. This was most apparent when you went well put of your way to s*** all over the Santander signing and not allowing posters to simply be happy about a much needed infusion of thump. That's a massive wet blanket move that is nothing more than you refusing to give credit where credit is due for reasons that I can't really understand. The current front office hasn't been perfect by any means, but it's nothing more than sour grapes to refuse to acknowledge when they make effective moves. I think that ownership deserves credit for opening the pocketbook, and the front office deserves credit for infusing a ton of talent into the roster. The off-season wouldn't be effective without both sides concurrently contributing in their respective areas.
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    You haven't been here very long and as such you don't the posting history of certain individuals on the previous board prior to the move. This dude has done nothing but complain for the last few years including some really odd posts such as literally wanting to take a deuce on Ross Atkins face. I have no issues with discussing baseball opinions but I also expect opinions to be backed up with some sort of actual reasoning and not be exclusively filled with nothing but hyperbole and nonsense that's easily refuted with basic facts. That extends to you when you make silly statements about how the current front office is the worst in the history of Toronto sports. Make serious statements and you'll be taken seriously, make statements that belong in the Sportsnet comment section and you'll be treated accordingly.
  8. max silver
    It's maybe not quite an epic offseason yet, but it's getting awfully close. I'd already hand out an A- rating based on how much talent has already been infused into the roster.
  9. max silver
    Do you even like the Blue Jays? Even in the midst of an epic offseason you are still grousing and acting like a giant turd. I get the feeling you are incapable of being happy about the team no matter what they do.
  10. max silver
    I think the only reason the team even bothered using Moreno at any positions instead of catcher was due to having 3 MLB starter quality catchers on the roster, vs Moreno being some kind of actual super utility player candidate. He's yet to play a single inning at anywhere other than catcher since he debuted into a catching logjam situation.
  11. max silver
    Yeah Bo said publicly that he wants to remain with the Blue Jays long term. I think the hangup could actually be whether the front office wants to sign him to an extension vs Bo wanting to remain a Blue Jay based on his actual words.
  12. max silver
    How charitable of you. The team owner opens up the pocketbook to supplement his team and of course you are acting like it's a bad thing instead of giving him credit for finally spending like the big market team that the Blue Jays are.
  13. max silver
    There's a newer poster here that said Atkins was literally the worst GM in the history of Toronto sports.
  14. max silver
    I believe it was confirmed that it does count against the CBT ledger, although I saw this posted from a few twitter dudes I'm not terribly familiar with.
  15. max silver
    This would be one of those situations where any further additions to the payroll become far more expensive than the initial sticker price would suggest. As a hypothetical situation if Alonso were signed for a straight $28 million salary for the 2025 season, I assume the team would be taxed at 12% for the first $8 million up to the second tier of the luxury tax, at a total of approximately $1 million. The tax would ramp up to 42.5% for the remaining $20 million, adding another $8.5 million in tax dollars to the ledger. If my thinking is correct this would bring the total financial outlay to nearly $36.5 million after tax. I can only assume that deferrals would be utilized to bring the tax dollars down to a more reasonable level.
  16. max silver
    Yeah Moreno is super versatile. That's fully backed up by the whopping total of 9 innings he's played at positions other than catcher, all of which occurred in the 2022 season while still a Blue Jay.
  17. max silver
    Damn someone brought the receipts.
  18. max silver
    That seems a bit dramatic for a dude with a career 101 wRC+ who is coming off of shoulder surgery.
  19. max silver
    Not to mention Ohtani as well. Last offseason saw the likes of Chapman and Bellinger lingering on the market as spring training approached vs the likes of Santander and Alonso. I don't know if Atkins was particularly interested in Bellinger but it was apparent that Chapman was a top target all along.
  20. max silver
    Who says I was even specifically talking about the Blue Jays front office? MLB as a whole has stopped paying top dollars to one dimensional sluggers in recent offseasons, and this has even extended to the Cohen led Mets.
  21. max silver
    I'd wager that MLB front offices that are paid to build teams know more about the value of defensively limited sluggers than you do.
  22. max silver
    I think Giminez is potentially a better short stop defender than Kim but we don't have a lot of innings at the position to get a proper gauge. I believe a year at second base would potentially be a good thing for Kim as he works on rebuilding his throwing strength after shoulder surgery.
  23. max silver
    This dude has been a constant buzzkill for the entirety of the offseason. He can't even let us feel happy without trying to bring everyone down with a bunch of mopey comments.
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  25. max silver
    Now you are misrepresenting what I've actually said. It's not a bad thing to be happy that the team is being improved later in the offseason with a distinct possibility for further improvements. There's no need to be a giant sourpuss 24/7 on here.
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