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  1. max silver
    If they tried to bring in Chapman at the last moment it appears as though they had more than $40 million to work with and just chose not to spend the money for whatever reason. I sort of get shades of 2017 where the team only signed short term lower AAV deals and didn't really make a full hearted attempt to compete for the next few seasons as they rebuilt behind the scenes. If they actually had 60+ million to work with that would have opened the door to a lot more effective offseason than what was ultimately the case.
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    Yeah that's really surprising if the team actually chose Turner when they had a legitimate opportunity to sign Joc. The only benefit I can see is that Turner didn't look like he needed to be platooned at the time of signing and could be closer to a full time player.
  3. max silver
    Holy s*** dude how many times do you need to make the same point in a single post?
  4. max silver
    Could this guy potentially step right into a major league rotation next season or is he likely to need a bit of seasoning in the minors first?
  5. max silver
    Yeah that really doesn't make any sense. I don't know how there could possibly be enough hours in the day for Shapiro to spearhead all of the player acquisition efforts on top of President and CEO duties.
  6. max silver
    But the Blue Jays Halladay return of Michael Taylor, Travis D'Arnaud and Kyle Drabek was obviously way better, get with the program man.
  7. max silver
    I recall the Halladay trade returned the Blue Jays a giant pile of s***.
  8. max silver
    I don’t view this as some sort of black and white scenario as not all of the front office decisions have been bad. I think the Green extensions and IKF deal were good deals, just like I think the KK deal is a disaster and the Turner signing has ultimately been a disappointment. Ultimately the front office will take the blame for how the season has gone but there has been a lot of unlucky s*** like all of the leverage relievers either missing huge chunks of time and/or being awful when actually available. This has exposed the lack of pitching depth in the organization which has been an ongoing issue but I’m not sure there are a lot of teams that could fully cover the loss of their closer, primary setup guy, having their primary leverage lefty reliever completely fall off a cliff and two other leverage options miss large chunks of times as well.
  9. max silver
    Huh? Im not defending the front office, I just said the actual on the field results from Green are actually really good. Try to keep up.
  10. max silver
    It’s not a bad extension in the first place. It’s low key insane to act like Green hasn’t provided tremendous results on the field as he’s barely allowed any runs this season. The club can be extremely happy with what he’s done to this point. Sooner or later he’ll be burned with a pile of rums if the home run rate isn’t brought into check but they have all been solo shots and caused minimal harm.
  11. max silver
    If I recall correctly Click is in charge of overall strategy for the organization. Based on what has happened in the team's major league and minor league teams this season I'm not so sure he's deserving of a promotion.
  12. max silver
    Yeah he's given up 6 runs all season long. Half of those came in the last week as he hit a bit of a rough patch so he's obviously the reason the Blue Jays season has gone into the shitter. If he'd allowed the same 6 ER but with something like a 2.5 FIP you'd be singing his praises all day long, yet the team would have seen Green on the mound for exactly the same numbers of runs against and the team would most likely have the same record.
  13. max silver
    Why not? The 2021-2023 Blue Jays teams were all good and Bo played at short.
  14. max silver
    Damn I'm starting to get shades of Josh Donaldson who had a rash of calf injuries in his last few seasons with the team that really cratered his trade value. Julian Merryweather 2.0 incoming at next year's trade deadline.
  15. max silver
    I find Ricky's injuries to be more concerning than a lot of Nate's issues as so many of his were freak in nature and not arm related. Nate had fluky s*** like a broken arm from a comebacker, a mono infection and a non throwing arm core issue. With Ricky having so many shoulder/bicep/elbow issues I'm more concerned about his ability to hold up over time even with the relatively younger age.
  16. max silver
    I'm not sure if Horwitz even has the necessary foot speed to handle left field. His sprint speed is surprisingly only a touch above Alejandro Kirk (24.8 ft/s for Horwitz vs 24.7 ft/s for Kirk).
  17. max silver
    Come on man you've been obsessing over the dude for months so it's only fair he returns fire every so often.
  18. max silver
    I think Pop needs to go something like 50/50 sinker/slider. His fastball command is just awful and he tends to leave a ton of his sinkers up in the zone where they are hammered.
  19. max silver
    That was a really fun series. It's too bad it's ultimately too little too late but this felt like the 2024 Blue Jays world series this weekend.
  20. max silver
    I don't think Gurriel had a ton of trade value even discounting the lack of power output in 2022. Even in a good season he was basically an average MLB corner outfielder with a league average bat. He had a single year of control and made $7 million, there just wasn't much in the way of surplus trade value in Gurriel.
  21. max silver
    What's your issue exactly? Varsho is streaky and prone to prolonged periods of struggles, yet he's also had longer periods of above average offensive production as well.
  22. max silver
    The issue with this line of thinking was that Gurriel was never in the same tier as Teoscar as he simply didn't offer the same kind of offensive upside. It's key to remember that he was coming off of a season where he hit all of 5 home runs and that likely factored into the type of trade value he had to offer.
  23. max silver
    I recall Varsho had a stated goal of reducing his pop up rate but that's been an abject failure as he's hitting them at the highest rate of his career. Assuming he's not already doing this he's a guy that needs to spend an offseason at Driveline or somewhere similar working on his swing as what he is doing presently isn't working particularly well.
  24. max silver
    Varsho is coming off of a 4 month stretch where he was a 115 wRC+ bat (August of last season until mid June of this season). He's a streaky hitter and prone to stretches where he's legitimately awful at the plate. He was sitting at 115 as late as June 16 and then ripped off a two week stretch where he lost the ability to even make contact and puked out a -38 wRC+. He had a similar stretch last season but it lasted about 6 weeks in totality. He's shown signs of turning around his fortunes in recent games so hopefully he can go back to producing at the plate again as the 6 week mega slump last year essentially ruined his overall numbers.
  25. max silver
    He's likely stretched athletically to remain their over the long haul but I've been pleasantly surprised by his glove work up to this point.
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