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  1. max silver
    That's not true. Pardinho was re-signed as a minor league free agent and invited to spring training. https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/blue-jays-sign-pardinho-lauer-and-sanchez-to-minor-league-deals/
  2. max silver
    I think the high performance department has largely done a good job keeping the team healthy and on the field. This is especially true with the rotation in particular as the team has enjoyed very healthy starting rotations most seasons during this competitive window. On the position player side I think the team has done a good job as well, aside from the recurring calf injuries suffered by Bo and Donaldson during the previous competitive window.
  3. max silver
    I place the Brewers right up there with the Rays as a smaller market club that consistently does a great job despite not being able to run larger payrolls.
  4. max silver
    This could work nicely depending on how the recent velocity/stuff gains carry over to the starting rotation. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's more of a Jordan Hicks scenario where he's just more effective out of the pen where he can fully air out his pitches.
  5. max silver
    That's the thing nobody really knows one way or the other. The Blue Jays have been pretty vague on what his actual job duties entail so it's impossible to know whether some sort of cure for the Blue Jays ills or part of the disease.
  6. max silver
    I thought you were the poster carrying on about how the best rotation option the Blue Jays could possibly sign was Morton and that they'd be forced to settle for scraps.
  7. max silver
    I'm sure there's no harm in tossing s*** at the wall to see what sticks, but I don't know if a guy that produced a 60 wRC+ in the infamously hitter friendly PCL would be the second best catcher in any MLB organization. Edit: I went ahead and read through his prospect writeup at MLB Pipeline and he appears to have very solid skills behind the plate which is not nothing. His AAA numbers were just atrocious though including an average exit velocity of 85 MPH on top of a 28% k rate so he'll need to successfully make major adjustments at the plate to have any kind of shot.
  8. max silver
    It's kind of an inexact science. Santander has typically outperformed his expected home runs season to season. From what I can see the Statcast expected home run metrics shows how many home runs a player would hit if all of his games were played in a specific stadium whereas he'd only be playing there a maximum of 81 times per season.
  9. max silver
    Based on the Statcast expected home runs metric he'd gain a few extra dingers at Rogers Centre vs Oriole Park.
  10. max silver
    Perhaps tacking on a reduced cost mutual option for the 5th year could sweeten the pot a bit.
  11. max silver
    Yeah we can agree to disagree for sure. Having said that I'm argumentative in nature so here goes nothing. 😁 In the end I simply believe Vlad is going to be primarily paid to help his team win baseball games. I can come up with a laundry list of reasons to outline how Vlad is one of the riskier players in MLB to offer a long term extension to, and I don't think that the language he chooses to conduct his interviews in with English media would even register on my list. I would include things like the bad body concerns, inconsistent offensive performance year to year despite hall of fame level natural offensive talent, worst in MLB baserunning and defense since he debuted, questionable offseason work ethics at times, chronic wrist injury concern, several knee related issues at a young age, several seasons where Vlad intimated that off season distractions were largely behind decreased production on the field, etc. I believe that all of these directly tie into Vlad's ability to help the Blue Jays remain competitive on the field of play, and that's the only thing that ultimately matters.
  12. max silver
    Another point to add is that I think that more teams would be able to squeeze a few months of Vlad's salary onto the bottom line vs paying full freight for the entire season. I think that this would open up smaller market teams as possibilities to enter the bidding, and a full on bidding war between contenders would be the end result. Players with elite offensive potential aren't typically available at the trade deadline, and I think there would be a ton of competition to drive up the eventual trade return.
  13. max silver
    Vlad entertains fans by playing baseball. He's not an actor or something of that sort where English matters all that much beyond being able to communicate with his teammates. That seems a little self important of you to care what language Vlad chooses to speak in during his interviews. I care only about how he performs on the field and the rest is pretty immaterial.
  14. max silver
    Why would you assume Vlad can't speak English? He's given plenty of interviews in English in recent seasons but much like a multitude of players prefers to give interviews in his native tongue. He believes he was misquoted years ago and that was directly behind the preference for Spanish most of the time. I think it's a lazy criticism from fans to complain about a foreign player preferring non English interviews.
  15. max silver
    I think he'd need to post Judge like numbers. He played at an 8 win pace over the last 5 months with a 181 wRC+ so 9 wins would take a step above that kind of offensive production. Maybe it's possible he produces more value at third base if he spends more time there which could help to bridge the gap towards an 8 win season.
  16. max silver
    It appears as though Vlad values getting paid above all else in terms of signing any kind of extension, but that's a bit of an assumption based on what we've heard publicly.
  17. max silver
    From what I can gather for the Angels to move Ohtani they would have needed to break a bunch of marketing related contracts which greatly complicated the situation.
  18. max silver
    If there's any truth in that rumor the club should just move on from Vlad. It appears as though he's been asking for the moon throughout his time with the Blue Jays without ever really earning the type of money he's been asking for.
  19. max silver
    I think you misread what was written. Laika never said that the Blue Jays lower threshold was $241 million, he stated that their CBT payroll at present was sitting around $228 million at present.
  20. max silver
    Um did you somehow miss that Teoscar won a world series as a member of the Dodgers last season?
  21. max silver
    I'm at the point where I don't care if it's 3 years or 4 or even 5 for Santander. The team is going to lose a second round pick if they sign him up which is the only real negative I can see. The team is rapidly approaching the point where a rebuild is potentially going to need to happen barring unexpected breakouts in the minors, and an extra year or two for Santander's services isn't going to a huge deal on a team that's likely going to be awful anyway.
  22. max silver
    I believe that payroll is 10 to 12 million shy of where the team ended last season, not where they started. I do think there was extra payroll available as the team took a shot at signing Matt Chapman late in the offseason as spring training was approaching. It feels increasingly unlikely anyone of note will be added as the best targets are rapidly dropping off of the board.
  23. max silver
    I think we need some sort of tar and feather option when there is a disagreement.
  24. max silver
    Yeah that would have potentially been a great combination. Perhaps they wouldn't have worked very well together as I think AA was a riverboat gambler and Shapiro seemed to be much more risky averse. One of the things that set AA apart was his willingness to attempt bold, potentially franchise altering moves. THis was also arguably a massive weakness at times as he was willing to make risky moves that failed miserably. It's possible that Shapiro could have prevented some of the real head scratchers from occurring (the Dickey trade is top of mind here), but at the same time it's possible Shapiro's more conservative nature would have constrained AA excessively. Ultimately we'll never know.
  25. max silver
    AA sold the farm in the way out the door and chose to abandon ship. He was offered an extension and turned it down. He absolutely could have seen things through as you suggest but chose not to.
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