trellaine201
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Unfortunately we really don’t have any game changers for trade this deadline . We have to lightning in a bottle in any exchange IMO
What catchers are out there on the market? Assuming they are 100% moving on from Jano. Can they roll with Kirk and some backup if they improve the offence enough?
Looks like they are gonna give Yesavage everything left over above the slot value if I’m gonna predict anything lol
Gives us 580k overslot that we can give Yesavage, Messina and Terrell combined. I don't really see Messina taking up that much over and not sure they can get both him and Terrell for that much so I guess Yesavage is coming in slightly above slot?
Looks like they are gonna give Yesavage everything left over above the slot value if I’m gonna predict anything lol
Cheers.It's not really. But not because of the gap between the high-powered teams and others. It's more because drafting in baseball is a massive crapshoot and even drafting at the top is not the guarantee you get a marquee, franchise altering player that it is in other sports. It's still easier to rack up good prospects drafting at the top of the board vs further down, but even elite prospects in an MLB draft are far less of a sure thing than they are in hockey, basketball, or football.
drafting in baseball is a massive crapshoot and even drafting at the top is not the guarantee you get a marquee, franchise altering player that it is in other sports. I
2. The Blue Jays will trade a cornerstone player
It feels like it's time. The first half went about as poorly as possible for the Blue Jays, who are 44-52 overall and 9.5 games out of a wild-card spot with six teams ahead of them. FanGraphs puts Toronto's postseason odds at 1.8% and that feels high. SportsLine puts them at a more humbling 1.0%. Things are dire north of the border.
The question is not will the Blue Jays sell at the deadline. Of course they will. Rentals Yusei Kikuchi and Danny Jansen are as good as gone in a trade market starved for pitching and light on catchers. It wouldn't be a bad idea to listen to offers for Chris Bassitt and Chad Green even though they're signed through 2025. What about Kevin Gausman? Never hurts to take a call, right?
The Blue Jays are going to sell. The question is to what extent? To put it another way, would they actually trade a homegrown cornerstone player like Bo Bichette and/or Vladimir Guerrero Jr.? This bold prediction says yes, the Blue Jays will send shockwaves through Toronto and the trade market by trading one of their foundational pieces.
We'll say Guerrero stays and Bichette goes. Specifically, he'll get traded to the Giants for erstwhile top prospect Marco Luciano and lefty Carson Whisenhunt, among others. San Francisco gets a needed shortstop and the big name it craves, and the Blue Jays shake things up and improve their young talent base. Bichette's days in Toronto are numbered, we boldly predict.
Honestly, I think there are a lot of people that feel the same way.I am reading this thread almost everyday, but I feel like I'm doing it out of obligation, not because I really want to.
This current Blue Jays team has sucked the life out of my love for not only them but for MLB. Yeah, my interest in Baseball has been going down, becoming less and less for about a decade now. I can't get into the sport even as close to as much as I did before. But hope for this team starting a couple years ago, that is what kept me clinging to any desire I had to watch Baseball at all.
I'm trying to keep an interest, I really am, but its just about gone.
It kind of feels like we're heading the same direction with Bo/Vlad as we did back then with Green/Delgado. Assume they go that direction (extend one, trade the other) the key will be to not trade one of them for someone who both worse and older. That Green deal set the Jays back YEARS.Honestly, I think there are a lot of people that feel the same way.
I've watched terrible versions of the Jays, but this feels closer to a Gord Ash run organization than anything we've had for years. The problem isn't that the 2024 Jays stink; it is that they stink while spending a ton of money, signing the wrong people and not bothering to lock up Bo and Vladdy.
Your interest should no longer be in this current team but in the deadline itself and then in the off season we see what if there’s a new front office and what they do. If it’s Shapiro/Atkins after this year then give up and many of us willI am reading this thread almost everyday, but I feel like I'm doing it out of obligation, not because I really want to.
This current Blue Jays team has sucked the life out of my love for not only them but for MLB. Yeah, my interest in Baseball has been going down, becoming less and less for about a decade now. I can't get into the sport even as close to as much as I did before. But hope for this team starting a couple years ago, that is what kept me clinging to any desire I had to watch Baseball at all.
I'm trying to keep an interest, I really am, but its just about gone.
I don’t really have a problem with them trading Green and with the season he’s having and extra year he should be able to bring a strong return back. He’s been great but he’s injured so often I’m fine spending that 10 million elsewhere next year
They need to pick a direction and next year IS NOT A DIRECTION.I echo what the last few posts have said. Love baseball, love watching games, last year was not the most enjoyable team fo watch... this year's team is far worse. They got so far behind in the standings that nothing feels important and they lack any excitement besides great fielding from Varsho and Co... not a recipe for fan engagement. New training facility, stadium renovations and 250 million payroll and not one guy locked up long term besides a few aging pitchers and Berrios. It will be incredible to see how they can try to regain fan support while doing everything possible to wreck it at the same time.
I think what we’ll see if Bo isn’t just traded at the deadline is a whole new direction from the new management group. I don’t see them being able to compete next year although they’d still have the starting pitching to be good. But this is how I see it play out.They need to pick a direction and next year IS NOT A DIRECTION.
Either they sell and they make everyone available (with the caveat that they either sign Vladdy and Bo or make them truly available) or they retool (moving out all of the rentals plus some extra pieces with value like Green but this ONLY works if Vladdy and Bo are locked up).
There is no middle ground. You do not take this team team into next year with your big 2 headed to free agency.
They need to pick a direction and next year IS NOT A DIRECTION.
Either they sell and they make everyone available (with the caveat that they either sign Vladdy and Bo or make them truly available) or they retool (moving out all of the rentals plus some extra pieces with value like Green but this ONLY works if Vladdy and Bo are locked up).
There is no middle ground. You do not take this team team into next year with your big 2 headed to free agency.
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feels like drafting in basketball is a crapshoot too.
That differed money makes me hope Ohtani never gets a taste of a WS game let alone a title. But they’ll win multiple times insteadFUK the Dodgers. Hope they lose in their first round! Ok I am jealous. But I still hope they LOSE!