cram wrote:EastBayBoy wrote:changes wrote:Yep, awful logic. Pretty amusing. Well they weren't going to spend 220 on Price............. therefore Happ is a good signing.
Not sure you are aware of the $$ market for middling starting pitching. To go out and sign mediocre rotation SPs is a lot more of a risk than signing Happ or Chavez. See the contracts of guys like Rickey Nolasco, Jimenez and Garza to name a few., these contracts turn bad fast. The money average rotation guys receive is insane and money would be better spent more effectively to fix other needs. Rumours are Chen wants 20 mil a year, don't know if he's going to get it but thats how crazy the market is.
In regards to trading for starting pitching, the Jays don't have the farm system to trade for top calibre rotation guys. Second, trading away cost efficient prospects is what put the Jays in this predicament in the first place. By trading more prospects for short term fixes in the rotation isn't smart baseball management. it would just be compounding the situation we are already in.
Who said you have to trade prospects? Why not players from our roster?
Guy like Saunders and Ben R wouldn't attract much in trade, Pompey is a cost efficient player who is under control for multiple years owuldn't be that smart to trade him, Pillar might be attractive to some but him alone won't gain much and he is also a cost efficient cause he's making league minimum. There's the rout of trading EE or Bautista that some have suggested but they wouldn't get a top end starter cause of age and only having one year left on their contracts. Hypothetically, if some one were to bite on either one of them you'd have to find another way to fill in what they just lost in the line up.
Who would you trade to get a top end starter ?
