Asianiac_24 wrote:At this point it might be better for the team to just keep losing. This team will have a really hard time even getting a WC spot. If we keep sucking until the trade deadline, hopefully that will trigger a fire sale. We have quite a few players (Vlad, Bo, Gausman, Bassitt, Berrios) that can get us some nice young prospects
Look at the players Atkins got back for Donaldson, Stroman, Osuna, Happ, etc. The Jays waited too long to trade them and then got pennies on the dollar. History seems like it might repeat itself here. Could have done something big this past winter with the core (Vlad or Bo), and none of the fans would have cared given how 2023 ended, and yet they just kept chugging along. Just like in 2017 when the team was clearly old and bad, and they decided to keep chugging along.
Long story short, if the Jays are sellers at the deadline, Atkins shouldn’t be the one doing it. Having to see fans gas up Thomas Pannone, Thomas Hatch, Anthony Kay, Jacob Waguespack, Billy McKinney, Forrest Wall, and so on, is not something I want to have to go through again.