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    The overall meaning of the message is still close enough.
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    They added a switch hitting 30+ home run corner bar for a similar AAV to Lourdes Gurriel Jr. It's a great deal that adds much needed thump to the lineup and has a clever structure that limits the potential downsides to a massive degree.
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    Yeah he legit freaked out on Brownie for simply using the thumbs down button for his posts. I think that guy must have failed kindergarten or something as he doesn't seem to be able to coexist with other people very well. On a semi related note I think kindergarten was the very best times of my educational experience as we got to have a nap each day immediately followed by toy playing time. That was living the good life, and my retirement will likely follow suit with daily naps and video games.
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    Not only was it the worst GM in team history, it was also the worst GM in baseball, and even the worst GM in the history of Toronto sports. I don't expect anything but crickets from that dude at this point. I think this nitwit has each of us on his ignore list so he's basically doing this right now:
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    That's exactly what Vlad did for the last 5 months of the season after the poor start for the first 4 weeks.
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    I expect the potential Alonso deal is going to be structured similarly to Green and Santander in that both the team and player are going to have a lot of flexibility in how the future plays out. I would be surprised if the contract doesn't have ways for the contract to be morphed into a longer term deal at a higher AAV if Alonso bounces back at the plate.
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    I believe it's just a matter of time before Vlad and the club hammer out an extension.
  9. max silver
    Hopefully this dude isn't full of s***.
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    If Alonso ends up going back to the Mets I'd like the Jays to immediately pivot to Profar and get a deal done.
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    Hopefully the Mets don't cockblock the Jays by upping their offer at the last minute.
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    Both of these guys have awfully similar projections so it's basically a pick your poison scenario as I fully expect each of them to be pretty bad. Heineman at least appears to be a solid defender behind the plate so he has that going for him.
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    This gif looks more like how I imagined Jays24 to look before the Santander signing was announced. 😁
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    Bethancourt and Heineman can battle it out to see who has a less bad spring training showing.
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    Cabrera still managed a 5+ win season at the age of 33. I believe he started to take a dramatic downturn after back issues started to become an issue for him.
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    I view Santander's deal as pretty similar to Schwarber's, but it's more team friendly after you factor in the deferrals. If Santander becomes more of a DH in a year or two that's no big deal as he's really only being paid like one.
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    I believe it's possible that the players may actually be better off if the league implemented a salary cap system that made the qualifying offer system disappear completely. The top end could be some semi outrageous sum like $350-400 million or whatever that would still allow the top few clubs to flex their financial muscle. I believe a floor would force the lower end teams to actually spend on their clubs vs pocketing the revenue sharing funds. I believe if the league was forced to open the books and set the cap to increase over time based on league revenues that the players would be better off in the end, particularly the mid range guys are really getting the shaft in recent years in free agency, particularly those that are barely good enough to receive a qualifying offer. The high end earners also happened to be a lot of the players who tended to populate the unions negotiating group and it feels like they tended to negotiate a lot based on the needs of the top few earners in the game while sort of ignoring the lower income earners of the sport.
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    I get the impression that the MLB players union didn't particularly care that much about the international free agents and prioritized guys that were actually in the union during contract negotiations over the years.
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    I believe that the actual contract structure is very important in this discussion as well. Given that it contains a lot of deferred money I believe this mitigates quite a bit of the inherent risk as Santander's present day value corresponds to a lowly $14 million AAV. I do believe it's frontloaded to a certain degree for the first three seasons, so this could potentially increase the likelihood of Santander utilizing his opt out after the 3rd year of the deal as well which would be a fantastic result for the club.
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    Ah gotcha. This is just one of the many reasons how the current qualifying offer system does nothing but hurt the players. But of course MLB wanted to attach a million strings to removing the qualifying offer system such as implementing an international draft.
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    The 2-4 hitters were likely the best trio in club history, but I think the 2021 team may have featured a deeper lineup as the 2015 squad was pretty top heavy.
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    The signing period lasts until December 15th so there's plenty of time to spend it or trade it.
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    This is just simply dumb criticism. Olney is saying that if Vlad isn't signed to a long term extension then the Santander deal somehow becomes regrettable regardless of how he actually performs on the field. If the team struggles and Santander is a potent middle of the order bat the team would have little difficulty in moving him to a different team, there just wouldn't likely be much if any prospect capital coming back in return. If Santander struggles on a bad team he's not paid an exorbitant amount by any means, and if the team is blown up in the meantime Rogers can simply absorb the cost with ease as there is very little long term money on the books past the next few seasons. There really isn't a lot of potential downside here as Santander is basically being paid DH money despite still likely being able to man an actual position for the next few seasons.
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