JoeyBats wrote:Do you guys think Chavez will be good enough next season to earn a qualifying offer?
Highly doubt Chavez will be offered one. Would you want to pay 16.7 million for Chavez?
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JoeyBats wrote:Do you guys think Chavez will be good enough next season to earn a qualifying offer?
bluerap23 wrote:JoeyBats wrote:Do you guys think Chavez will be good enough next season to earn a qualifying offer?
Highly doubt Chavez will be offered one. Would you want to pay 16.7 million for Chavez?
JoeyBats wrote:bluerap23 wrote:JoeyBats wrote:Do you guys think Chavez will be good enough next season to earn a qualifying offer?
Highly doubt Chavez will be offered one. Would you want to pay 16.7 million for Chavez?
Before the season started no one would have thought that Estrada would pitch well enough to earn a qualifying offer.
AthensBucks wrote:Lowry is done.
Nurse is below average at best.
Masai is overrated.
I dont get how so many people believe in the raptors,they have zero to chance to win it all.
bluerap23 wrote:http://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2015/11/21/jays-boss-shapiro-had-plenty-of-hits-with-indians-trades-griffin.html
Good article by Griff.
He is not a fan of the trade but does recount some of Shapiro's trades that have had excellent results.
The number to remember this off-season is 269 2/3.
Those are the innings the Toronto Blue Jays received during the regular season from starting pitchers Mark Buehrle and David Price. Neither are expected back next season – and that’s why the acquisition of Jesse Chavez from the Oakland Athletics for Liam Hendriks makes so much sense.
It’s understandable that after 22 years in the playoff wilderness, fans feel an attachment to every single person on the 25-man roster – thank goodness John McDonald didn’t play on the team last season; he’d have roads and schools named after him – but the simple truth is the Blue Jays believe Chavez is a better bet to help fill the starting innings gap than Hendriks. It’s true that a healthy Marcus Stroman addresses much of the innings issue – but what if the Blue Jays decide to trade, say, Drew Hutchison or R.A. Dickey? As poor as Hutchison was last season, that’s 150 innings. Dickey fell on his face in the playoffs, and manager John Gibbons would be popping champagne corks if he was ever dispatched … but he still logged 214 1/3 innings. And what if Aaron Sanchez stays in the bullpen?
Chavez alone doesn’t make the Blue Jays rotation better. The team will need to add, I believe, two more arms better equipped for the front of the rotation. But Chavez’s acquisition might allow general manager Tony LaCava to put some innings in play on the trade market, if he’s so inclined. And while it is an understandable inclination to doubt under-the-radar guys (even those with a 2.3 WAR, the same as Dickey’s in 2015) and look for flaws, keep this in mind: Chavez has been a decent early-season starter since he remade himself two years ago, and if that holds true he’s in the least an insurance policy against any April or May bumps in the road suffered by, say, Sanchez should he wobble a bit in any transition back to a starter.
Lateral Quicks wrote:That's an interesting comment in Blair's piece about how Gibby would pop champagne corks if the Jays got rid of Dickey. Is that for performance or personality reasons, I wonder.
North_of_Border wrote:Last time a similar trade like this happened between Jays-A's was when Toronto traded former 1st rounder Deck McGuire for swingman Brad Mills. Like Chavez he was a former Jay, played a similar role in Oakland and was near dominant at times in spurts.
What ever happened to Brad Mills?
..... Or Deck McGruire?