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Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:08 pm
by dagger
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:55 pm
by Michael Bradley
Shi Davidi @ShiDavidi
Source: Blue Jays and reliever Casey Janssen nearing agreement on two-year deal plus option, will avoid arbitration.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:27 pm
by BobbyBoy
YAY! Janssen is my favourite jay in the bullpen.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:50 pm
by g_greg

Nice.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:20 pm
by Secueritae
As long as he doesn't get thrown in as #5 starter like early last year, I'm happy with this deal.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:26 pm
by satyr9
Secueritae wrote:As long as he doesn't get thrown in as #5 starter like early last year, I'm happy with this deal.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of Litsch? Litsch started early in 2011. Janssen hasn't started a game for the Jays since 2009.
A guy at work said it was 2 plus an option, but I haven't seen that anywhere on my own yet so I don't have a link. I'm curious how much it's for if they got 2+option but I'm guessing it'll be significantly more than the 1.8-2.2 arby range.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:33 pm
by dagger
Deal sounds reasonable
$2.9m this season, $3.9m in 2013, club option for $4m in 2014 with no buyout.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:49 pm
by hyper316
it's $2.0 2012, $3.9 2013.
i think janssen will be traded away next offseason for something, same way Rzep was used in trade.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:51 pm
by satyr9
dagger wrote:Deal sounds reasonable
$2.9m this season, $3.9m in 2013, club option for $4m in 2014 with no buyout.
Very. I was guessing for 3 years of control it'd start 500k higher. Still, with the volatility of both reliever performance and the reliever FA market I can see why Janssen's happy too.
edit: if Hyper's right about 2.0, then it's even better. I don't know why he'd delay FA without getting a little something extra for this year though.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:57 pm
by hyper316
$2 mill was the mid point of the two numbers in arb. i guess they settled in the middle. I think it is a decent contract. Janssen is not a closer, so he wont get more than $5 mill in the market.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:27 am
by baulderdash77
2 years, $5.9 million with a club option for year 4 at $4 million- 2012 - 2 million, 2013 3.9 million.
It's a pretty fair deal for all sides. I think it's a safe bet that he'll get all 3 years out if he pitches anything like the last 2 years.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:31 am
by Kurtz
Good deal.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:22 am
by flatjacket1
Happy about the deal. It was worth millions to keep away from nasty arbitration's. Usually you just either tick off the player and save a couple bucks or lose a couple bucks and the player still is upset.
Why build a case to tell a player how terrible he is when you want him to pitch for you the ensuing year?
I think it was a great deal, if anything they payed market value and we have a nice option to keep him around if he is outperforming his contract. It's a beautiful thing.
Also a side note, our bullpen is DIRTY, I'm actually looking forward to the later innings in the game.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:47 pm
by tecumseh18
flatjacket1 wrote:Also a side note, our bullpen is DIRTY, I'm actually looking forward to the later innings in the game.
Just as long as the late innings start in the 7th, not in the 5th or 6th every damn game Romero doesn't start.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:58 pm
by flatjacket1
tecumseh18 wrote:flatjacket1 wrote:Also a side note, our bullpen is DIRTY, I'm actually looking forward to the later innings in the game.
Just as long as the late innings start in the 7th, not in the 5th or 6th every damn game Romero doesn't start.
Good point. I have a feeling our rotation is improved from last year too (swap out Jo-Jo)
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:02 pm
by Nolan
Its hard not to like the deal.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:58 am
by kwamebargnani
flatjacket1 wrote:Good point. I have a feeling our rotation is improved from last year too (swap out Jo-Jo)
Watching Jo-Jo Reyes getting beat up every inning was mind boggling. Cecil better not do the same this year.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:44 pm
by flatjacket1
kwamebargnani wrote:flatjacket1 wrote:Good point. I have a feeling our rotation is improved from last year too (swap out Jo-Jo)
Watching Jo-Jo Reyes getting beat up every inning was mind boggling. Cecil better not do the same this year.
Personally I think Cecil would have to try to pitch badly to be that bad.
Cecil at least has mistakes that you can look at and improve upon. If there is such a thing as "stuff" Jo-Jo doesn't have it.
Re: Jays have deal with Janssen
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:21 am
by BobbyBoy
Jo-Jo shouldnt have been in the MLB last year.