2021-22 Offseason Thread

polo007 · Post #501 » by **polo007** » Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:53 pm

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TR50 · Post #502 » by **TR50** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:22 am

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polo007 · Post #503 » by **polo007** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:04 am

Freeman, Schwarber linked to Blue Jays as speculation heats up - Sportsnet.ca

The Blue Jays, according to an industry source, have been poking around on Freeman all off-season and some of their players have discussed how well he’d fit among them. The club’s also been hot on the trail of another free-agent lefty slugger, Kyle Schwarber, as Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic first reported Sunday night, and they’ve been ambitious enough to consider the possibility of adding both, although other moves would be needed to make it work.

As teams clear through a winter-frenzy level transaction logjam created by the lockout, the Blue Jays have been busily weighing a host of different opportunities available to them. The $36-million, three-year deal for left-hander Yusei Kikcuhi completed Monday was a beginning rather than end, as they weigh relief options as up-market as Kenley Jansen, infield possibilities such as Jonathan Villar and moves far more transformative.

“They’ve got a lot going,” said another industry source.

The Blue Jays did plenty of work on trades before the lockout and many of the blockbusters completed in recent days are no doubt the by-product of talks that date back to before the shutdown.

While to this point they’ve focused on free agency, the Blue Jays have the prospect depth to get in on the sell-offs currently being conducted by the Athletics (the only thing keeping third baseman Matt Chapman from being perfect is that he bats right-handed) and Cincinnati Reds (if they’re willing to live with redundancy at first base for Freeman, why not rescue Joey Votto if taking his money helps land Luis Castillo or Tyler Mahle?).

They have surely tried again to pry Jose Ramirez from the Cleveland Guardians, as they did last trade deadline, although that may very well require big-league pieces.

Ultimately, it comes down to which slate of moves they can pull off.

polo007 · Post #504 » by **polo007** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:23 am

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polo007 · Post #505 » by **polo007** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 3:29 am

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polo007 · Post #506 » by **polo007** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:40 am

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polo007 · Post #507 » by **polo007** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:13 pm

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polo007 · Post #508 » by **polo007** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:14 pm

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s e n s i · Post #509 » by **s e n s i** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:35 pm

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either the social media manager for tim & friends/sportsnet is reaching for impressions or they have no clue about basic fielding drills.

it's not a 1B glove. it's not a 3B glove either. it's not a glove any major or minor leaguer would use at any position. because it's a valle training glove.

polo007 · Post #510 » by **polo007** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:49 pm

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Los_29 · Post #511 » by **Los_29** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:08 pm

The suspense is killing me.

Raps in 4 · Post #512 » by **Raps in 4** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:37 pm

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I'll believe it when I see it.

pilkoids · Post #513 » by **pilkoids** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 8:12 pm

So glad this isn't the Raps board. I'd have easily lost a day refreshing over there.

Post #514 » by **Schad** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:00 pm

Raps in 4 wrote:
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I'll believe it when I see it.

It's also still a really stupid argument. Our corporate owner's net asset base =/= our available resources. It has never worked like that, for any team, at any time. We're an asset like any other, and consequently we're expected to make money for our owners, not lose it. The Yankees aren't losing money by spending that much (in non-pandemic seasons), they just have much higher revenues. Even the Dodgers turned a net profit from 2012-2020 per Forbes.

We're about middle of the pack in revenues, with a top-out in the lower part of the top ten. We'll probably spend more on the higher end of our revenue picture, but anyone expecting us to start losing money hand over fist because Rogers has money is delusional. Even if Rogers sells the club to some other billionaire, that'd remain true.