General Blue Jays Thread: 2024 Season

I haven't watched too much spring baseball.
Haven't seen Green pitch, but his stats are abysmal in a small sample (7 innings).

Any reason to be optimistic (velo, stuff?) so that we can totally ignore his performance so far.

Ranger One · Post #589 » by **Ranger One** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:36 pm

Randle McMurphy wrote:
Davey0 wrote:Well this trade kinda hurts. I surely hope its worth it ?

Why would it hurt? Espinal sucks and had no place on this team any longer. Good to get rid of his salary.

I'm before he returns to his all star form with his new team lmao. Would not surprise me one bit.

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polo007 · Post #593 » by **polo007** » Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:11 am

Toronto Blue Jays open up 40-man roster spot by trading Santiago Espinal to Reds - Sportsnet.ca

DUNEDIN, Fla. — The Toronto Blue Jays cleared a spot on their 40-man roster and started unclogging their middle-infield/super-utility player logjam Wednesday by trading Santiago Espinal to the Cincinnati Reds for minor-league righty Chris McElvain.

Moving the 2022 all-star likely solidifies Ernie Clement’s spot on the big-league club while clearing space for either Brian Serven or Payton Henry, both non-roster invitees, to start the season in the majors while fellow catcher Danny Jansen recovers from a fractured pisiform.

Additional 40-man roster decisions will be necessary if the Blue Jays decide to carry any of minor-league free agents Joey Votto, Daniel Vogelbach or Eduardo Escobar, so additional juggling may very well loom.

Trading Espinal also frees up $2.725 million and leaves the Blue Jays roughly $10 million clear of the second luxury tax threshold of $257 million, adding to their flexibility.

At the same time, the Blue Jays add a 23-year-old right-hander in McElvain that they liked out of Vanderbilt in the 2022 draft before the Reds picked him in the eighth round.

He features a fastball that sits 92-93 and gets up to 94 along with a slider, changeup and cutter-type offering, and logged 96 innings over 23 games, 19 starts, between low-A Daytona and advanced-A Dayton last season, with a cumulative 3.75 ERA, 1.313 WHIP and 87 strikeouts.

It's an interesting mix of tools for the club’s player-development staff to work with.

Fairview4Life · Post #594 » by **Fairview4Life** » Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:00 pm

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DelAbbot · Post #595 » by **DelAbbot** » Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:15 pm

duppyy wrote:My hope is Varsho will be a 5 WAR player. dont know if thats considered good or great, im still a baseball noob lol.

5-war player is all-star game starter

the only way he does that is his offense comes back to the level of his final year in Arizona and he plays in CF for us

DelAbbot · Post #596 » by **DelAbbot** » Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:19 pm

Harry Palmer wrote:Anyone remember the last time we got good news?

The good news is with all our arms falling, Ross Atkins won't be trading Ricky Tiedermann for a defensive specialist or utility IF.

DelAbbot · Post #597 » by **DelAbbot** » Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:21 pm

JN wrote:I haven't watched too much spring baseball.
Haven't seen Green pitch, but his stats are abysmal in a small sample (7 innings).

Any reason to be optimistic (velo, stuff?) so that we can totally ignore his performance so far.

bluerap23 · Post #598 » by **bluerap23** » Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:57 pm

DelAbbot wrote:
JN wrote:I haven't watched too much spring baseball.
Haven't seen Green pitch, but his stats are abysmal in a small sample (7 innings).

Any reason to be optimistic (velo, stuff?) so that we can totally ignore his performance so far.

Damn, didn't realize that he had 2 years picked up. Thought it was just this season.

No need to panic in spring though. He's been pretty consistent throughout his career.

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