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  1. mphenhef
    I'm not defending it as a good strategy, just that it is one has has committed to.
  2. mphenhef
    He committed to defense pretty hard.
  3. mphenhef
    Are you happy with a trade that brings back the equivalent of Isaac Parades, Hayden Wesniski and Cam Smith? I'm not sure I would be but that's about the value vlad would bring back.
  4. mphenhef
    who have they let walk that would have been a good extension other than maybe Teo? you have to develop players to be able to extend them and that is a glaring weakness of this front office.
  5. mphenhef
    So is this them or the first base coach at fault? Are there others low on this particular metric?
  6. mphenhef
    hard to trade for impact talent when the cupboard is pretty bare.
  7. mphenhef
    This was done with some other players (and a different company) I want to say about ten years ago. Heaney was the one I was thinking of and last years salary would have put their ten percent over what they paid for it. (at least when not converting to todays dollars) https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/05/list-mlb-players-agreed-fantex-deals.html
  8. mphenhef
    The jays wasted them with poor organizational philosophy, coaching and execution. One or two players being inconsistent or having down years and I will blame it on the players. When it is as many players as the Jays have had show these declines and inconsistencies I'm blaming the org.
  9. mphenhef
    Here's the thing, the Guardians aren't going to turn around and spend the ~20 million a year in savings on something else. That's why they hate the trade. The jays would have spent that money and it is debatable if that's the best way to spend it. I'm not sure I trust this front office/coaching staff to unlock extra potential in his bat.
  10. mphenhef
    The deferrals only really help the team in the early years as well. For instance, starting in year 3 for Ohtani the Dodgers need to pay the present day value into an escrow to ensure they have the money to pay him at the deferral date.
  11. mphenhef
    This is just it...you start messing with taxes and the individual states might put up enough of a fuss to make the anti-trust exemption get looked at again.
  12. mphenhef
    People are talking about Wheeler as a Hall guy? That's crazy.
  13. mphenhef
    CC also wore pinstripes which I gaurantee you helps with getting votes.
  14. mphenhef
    If it is with heavy money deferred than that is a different story but many in the industry are talking like he is getting 700-800 million without deferrals which is ludicrous to me. For what it is worth, Fangraph's WAR also has Soto a step behind when looking at equivalent aged seasons. I avoided comparisons of 19, 20, 21 due to Pujols debuting at 21 and Soto having a short season for his age 21 season. Pujols arguably had an 80 grade hit tool and 65-70 power. Soto is arguably a 60-70 hit tool with less power. He does have an 80 grade eye mind you.
  15. mphenhef
    I think you are overestimating how good he is. Pujols consistently put up >8 bwar seasons from age 23-25. Soto has a high water mark of 7.9 this year following two years of 5.5. He simply doesn't have the hit tool nor the power tool either Thomas or Pujols had (at least not consistently). You need to get major value in the early years to make Soto's later years not extremely painful (Let's be honest, this is likely a 13 year contract). I'm not sure that value exists at 600-700 million unless you get 2020-2021 Soto but that's the outlier right now. Even at $10mil/WAR, Pujols 26-35 is only worth $517 million. I just can't how anyone justifies $700 million...Ohtani at least had the Japan marketing bonus (imagine how may sportsnetNow subs rogers would have sold). Yes, 1 WAR going from 8 to 9 is extremely more valuable than going from 1 to 2 but I'm not sure we ever see Soto at 9 plus WAR.
  16. mphenhef
    The Jays have developed pitching?
  17. mphenhef
    Scott Boras "This is an impressive offer that I can use to extract more money out of a New York or LA team. Thank you for your assistance Blue Jays...here, have a Yusei."?
  18. mphenhef
    True, but there was a 40/70 just last season.
  19. mphenhef
    He apparently hangs out with the gate 14 guys so that's one piece of evidence of stupidity
  20. mphenhef
    no, Vogelbach put up negative WAR in his time with them and clearly wasn't a good roster option regardless of what happened with Votto.
  21. mphenhef
    Some of the shows are good (See in my opinion was phenomenal), but the ball coverage is not.
  22. mphenhef
    I spent a summer listening to the Jays broadcast with Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth and let me tell you this. It was not dark times. Those games were amazingly well done.
  23. mphenhef
    Davis Schneider probably would hit 40 homeruns with the 2019 ball.
  24. mphenhef
    I don't know if it is fair to look at that last period of heavy spending as any indication of their future plans. That was when Mike Ilitch was still the owner. The payroll was slashed as soon as he passed and has not been higher than 17th in the league since then. Part of that heavy spending was Ilitch wanting a world series before he died too.
  25. mphenhef
    anybody else throw up a little bit reading this?
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