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  1. Eat My Shatkins
    I wonder how badly the Guardians will want to cut payroll? Currently sitting an an estimated $132,000,000 luxury tax payroll. Probably stupid to even hope for this on any level, but if the Jays could somehow pry Ramirez out of there that would be super dooper.
  2. Eat My Shatkins
    They're not going to rebuild when they've got one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. I can see them retooling next off season by trading Bo and Vlad with 1 year of control left.
  3. Eat My Shatkins
    The Jays had the 5th best pitching staff by fWAR in MLB last season, and didn't lose anyone from it but Ryu and Hicks who were both late season additions anyways. If you've got pitching, you've got a chance. Oh, and the off season is far from over lol
  4. Eat My Shatkins
    Getting in shape won't keep Vlad and his peanut brain from getting picked off 2nd base (when he's not even the lead runner) to end the season lol
  5. Eat My Shatkins
    That's great and all, and yeah hopefully they have a resurgence...it will lead to the team being good (which is the most important thing to me as a Jays fan) but it will also increase their collective trade values so they can hopefully be traded. IMO it will end up a huge mistake to try and build your team around players who struggle this hard to find the dedication to stay in any semblance of shape even bbefore they have cashed in on big contracts. If they can't do it now, what is going to happen when they all have huge contracts? They will probably balloon up for good.
  6. Eat My Shatkins
    I just read that Robert Herjavec is also affiliated with CAA. The same agency that represents Ohtani. Haha Call me crazy but it sure seems like that whole fiasco on Friday was stirred up by Ohtani's reps to get the Dodgers to throw another huge offer in. Quite the coincidence that they'd send the guy from Anaheim to Toronto on a plane that Ohtani flies on, and of course it "somehow" gets out there that Ohtani is the one on the plane, and of course some Dodgers media people get fed info that Ohtani has chosen the jays at the same time that a jet Ohtani usually flies on is going from Anaheim to Toronto. And then just like that, the next day Ohtani signs for $700 million with the Dodgers. lol https://www.caa.com/caaspeakers/robert-herjavec
  7. Eat My Shatkins
    That is... certainly a wall of text
  8. Eat My Shatkins
    Yes, both can be true. The Dodgers were probably Ohtani's "preferred destination" and also the highest bidders. But the reason they had to go so high was because the Jays were in there being leveraged by Ohtani's reps.
  9. Eat My Shatkins
    Yes, but in order to get the Dodgers to bid higher he needs another team in the mix trying to outbid them, which is what the Jays were obviously doing. I think Ohtani preferred the Dodgers, but I also think he was prepared to go to Toronto if they were offering more....to a certain point. $700 million was enough for him to just accept the offer on stay in LA.
  10. Eat My Shatkins
    This is what I think, they didn't get a chance to match. $700 million was enough for Ohtani to decide to play where he wanted to play to begin with. I think he was fully ready to go Toronto if it came to that, but the Dodgers ponied up and so he went where he really wanted to go.
  11. Eat My Shatkins
    I still wonder about the "leak" to Hoornstra and Dodgers Nation. I think it's possible Ohtani was leaning towards the Jays, the Dodgers knew this and leaked that they were out and Ohtani had picked the Jays. Then amidst the fan/media/twitter s*** storm they went back to Ohtani with their over the top offer and he took it because while he would have been just fine going to Toronto, ultimately it was the Dodgers he really wanted to play for. I mean just about every Tom, Dick and f***ing Harry out there bought into it and had Ohtani becoming a Jay a forgone conslusion after that leak, combined with the goddamn private jet tracking, etc lol It's possible even the Jays FO relaxed a little bit thinking they may have just accomplished landing the biggest FA in baseball history, and were just waiting for Ohtani's reps to reach out, meanwhile the Dodgers were upping their offer to $700 million and hooking the prize.
  12. Eat My Shatkins
    Pretty much whatever the Jays end up doing now is going to feel pretty underwhelming after thinking they had Ohtani yesterday lol Yamamoto would be great but I have zero confidence in him picking the Jays, especially with that f***tard Cohen going after him Lee would also be nice but none of these high profile Japanese or Korean dudes ever seem to pick the Jays when they come over All the rest of the FA's don't seem like they'll move the needle or be worth the god awful contracts they end up signing
  13. Eat My Shatkins
    I just did this in the other thread, but I added Orelvis and Zulueta to Manoah. Value is dead even on Baseball Trade Values FWIW
  14. Eat My Shatkins
    The Jays only have 37 guys on the 40 man right now. 5 in 3 out +2 39 on 40 man after this
  15. Eat My Shatkins
    Bahaha I guess I had Manoah on my brain
  16. Eat My Shatkins
    Sign Jung Hoo Lee Sign Yamamoto Sign Brantley Sign Hicks Trade Manoah, Orelvis, Zulueta to Reds for Spencer Steer 1. Gausman 2. Berrios 3. Yamamoto 4. Bassitt 5. Kikuchi CL - Romano SU - Hicks SU - Green RP - Swanson RP - Garcia RP - Mayza RP - Richards RP - White RF - Springer SS - Bo 1B - Vlad DH - Brantley 3B - Steer C - Kirk / Jansen LF - Lee CF - Varsho 2B - Biggio / Schneider
  17. Eat My Shatkins
    So how long until we find out Yama signed in the AL east? lol
  18. Eat My Shatkins
    Well they spent like $246 million last year, and with arb estimates they are set for about $214 million as it stands, so yeah I'd say $50-60 million more tops.
  19. Eat My Shatkins
    lol with one giant swift kick in the nuts I went from wondering if the Jays would win the division to wondering if they'll finish 3rd or 4th
  20. Eat My Shatkins
    I don't give a f*** about the money. He's a once in a many generations talent, and would have made a huge difference in the Jays ability to attract even more talent, but of course he ends up either a Dodger or a f***ing Yankee. So sick of coming up short on these game changer type talents.
  21. Eat My Shatkins
    Would love to get Yamamoto still, and then trade some pitching for a decent 3B with control. LF, 2B should be filled alright enough from within. But 3B is a big hole and nobody is ready to take it for a while from within, and I don't really want Chapman at some ridiculous contract. Now we still need a decent DH too. f***ing Dodgers.
  22. Eat My Shatkins
    Damn that stings. All my sports teams do is hurt me man.
  23. Eat My Shatkins
    Watch these sources all be correct, but then something shows up in Ohtani's physical that makes it all fall apart.
  24. Eat My Shatkins
    No it wasn't lol Link please?
  25. Eat My Shatkins
    Absolutely 100% false
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