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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. mphenhef
    The Jays have developed pitching?
  4. 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."?
  5. mphenhef
    True, but there was a 40/70 just last season.
  6. mphenhef
    He apparently hangs out with the gate 14 guys so that's one piece of evidence of stupidity
  7. 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.
  8. mphenhef
    Some of the shows are good (See in my opinion was phenomenal), but the ball coverage is not.
  9. 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.
  10. mphenhef
    Davis Schneider probably would hit 40 homeruns with the 2019 ball.
  11. 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.
  12. mphenhef
    anybody else throw up a little bit reading this?
  13. mphenhef
    Coors tends to have a bigger impact on hits than homers. Lots of doubles hit to that big outfield.
  14. mphenhef
    This post is so deflating Tom Brady offered it a job.
  15. mphenhef
    It's almost like with increased pitcher velocity athleticism is much more important for hitting...and highly athletic guys tend not to play 1B.
  16. mphenhef
    Teams will undoubtedly try to lowball for him based on that, but I do think teams would be quite interested as we've seen in the past when he gets on a heater he can absolutely carry a team (see Sept 2022). The calf issues might make it all moot though.
  17. mphenhef
    Remember when he inexplicably was collecting third basemen like he had absolutely 0 plans.
  18. mphenhef
    Last year
  19. mphenhef
    Bench
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    Vlad
  21. mphenhef
    Bo and Vlad are not on age-based declines. Some different voices (or sadly more likely different uniforms) will likely unlock them.
  22. mphenhef
    oh yes, Roki Sasaki most likely. A very elite pitcher who is also young. Munetaka Murakami is a big time slugger (3B) but sadly he might not come until after the 2025 season.
  23. mphenhef
    Pronounced like Frank Reynolds says it?
  24. mphenhef
    sadly the tweak might be a different logo on the uniform
  25. mphenhef
    Jansen
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