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[Raider917]

Jordan Hicks starting and looking good

[Raider917]

gurriel hr again

[Hottie McShotty]

we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.

[LBJKB24MJ23]

we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.

agreed. he would have fit the timeline/same age as Vladdy and a lefty bat in his prime

I'm assuming you would be comfortable trading tiedemann.

[LBJKB24MJ23]

Jordan Hicks starting and looking good

we will have to see by seasons end to see tbh

[Hottie McShotty]

we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.

agreed. he would have fit the timeline/same age as Vladdy and a lefty bat in his prime

I'm assuming you would be comfortable trading tiedemann.

If they were able to get Soto long term, then yes, I would have done it. Top prospects are always more likely to end up like Nate Pearson than Gabriel Moreno. and by a landslide too. Cant get too attached. However, not for a rental, that's just bad business. I also blame Atkins for doing a poor job of drafting talent and prospects over the years to be placed in a better position to make a big splash like the Yankees did. All the more reason to hate on this front office.

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we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.

agreed. he would have fit the timeline/same age as Vladdy and a lefty bat in his prime

I'm assuming you would be comfortable trading tiedemann.

If they were able to get Soto long term, then yes, I would have done it. Top prospects are always more likely to end up like Nate Pearson than Gabriel Moreno. and by a landslide too. Cant get too attached. However, not for a rental, that's just bad business. I also blame Atkins for doing a poor job of drafting talent and prospects over the years to be placed in a better position to make a big splash like the Yankees did. All the more reason to hate on this front office.

I don't think there Jays have drafted badly, the development criticism is perhaps more on point, but they have traded away prospects to get veterans like Berrios and Varsho with a little control. Unfortunately, that's a more expensive way of doing things. Literally expensive, because the team is constantly foregoing inexpensive ways to fill out a roster, which would allow them to focus on precisely the free agents who fit best or even trade for a rental. The Jays traded a first rounder (Murphy) and one of the two prospects (Woods Richardson) they got for prime Marcus Stroman for Berrios. They traded first rounder Gunnar Hoglund for Matt Chapman. Part of this seems to be the demand from media and fans to "win now", which dates back to AA's 2012 trade for Jay Happ, sending out Joe Musgrove as part of the package, and then sending Noah Syndergaard for R.A. Dickey. AA also had a poor record of drafting in the first round, but he did manage to trade first rounder (Jeff Hoffman) for Troy Tulowitski, which ought to go down as one of the worst trades in Jays history, not because Hoffman was a serious loss, but because of the lost opportunity cost for shouldering Tulo's huge salary while he contributed zero as a player from 2016 onward. (Several years into his major league career, Hoffman has sort of found stability with his fourth team as a low-to-mid-leverage reliever.)

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this is the best pitcher in MLB

and he previously had TJ surgery in 2019

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Season ending shoulder injury for Boston’s Trevor Storey

[StringerBell]

After watching the Yankees and Orioles play, they aren't falling off anytime soon. Atkins can't honestly expect this offense to keep pace...a major upgrade needs to be made before the trade deadline.

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