Blue Jays Discussion: 2024 Season - Complete without a great title in keeping with the performance
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Always enjoy seeing former Jays coming back and cutting their niche on TV providing insight during the playoffs.
Nice to see Pillar taking his turn. I've enjoyed his perspective.
Nice to see Pillar taking his turn. I've enjoyed his perspective.
I'mma need you to take this back. Boone is a godawful manager and he just showed why tonight.
Dude is completely oblivious to the game as it happens around him. Anyone with half a brain is pulling Cole earlier in the 5th given the vibes/body language showed he was floundering. Not Boone though.
He got outmanaged by god damn Dave Roberts of all people. That in itself is a firable offense.
notDatsyuk
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Hellcat
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That meltdown makes the Leafs meltdowns in Boston , look like a minor thing. I've never seen, in a deciding game, such a complete meltdown, from virtually any Yankee who touched the ball.
When the team was melting down, Boone did nothing to give the team a breather... something as simple as a time out to stop the Dodgers momentum ... nada nothing.. just chewed on his seeds and daydreamed about his fishing trip next week...
TheMadHatTrick
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Sad that he has to retire so young. I remember when he was a top-level prospect just yesterday.
Killer Orcas
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Off season can't start soon enough let's actually close some deals this off season Shapiro ! Congrats to Freddie and Teoscar !!
MK78
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Absolutely love it for Teoscar! He wasn't a passenger either he contributed.
Brown Dog
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Technically, the offseason actually start Oct 31. That is when trades became legal and teams were allowed to negotiate with free agents for the first time (can't be signed until next week).
Suntouchable13
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I still think Pete Alonso and Vladdy moving over to 3rd is the move. Or Christian Walker. Not sold on Bregman as an option.
As off-season opens, Blue Jays face end of current cycle and try to build another
The World Series made one thing apparent for the Toronto Blue Jays: They aren't anywhere close. This is a team facing the end of an era and a heavy decision to pick one path or another. The decisions over the next few months will carry that weight.
During his end-of-season media availability on Oct. 2, Shapiro said he didn’t see the payroll “either growing or decreasing in a big way,” which suggests the Blue Jays could end up in the $230-$240 million range again.
In other words, they have money to work with.
That should give them the space to add an impact bat, a lesser but productive hitter and a mid-range leverage reliever. Closer Jordan Romano is projected to make $7.75 million in arbitration but if his status after elbow surgery is too uncertain, he could be non-tendered to create additional spending room.
The return from last summer’s deadline sell-off, while not altering the franchise’s trajectory, gives the Blue Jays more assets to work with on the trade market, although both system and 40-man roster depth remain glaring organizational issues.
All of which brings us back to Muncy’s point, about how every team talks about winning a World Series in the spring, but for how few of them it’s actually a legitimate and sustainable aspiration.
The Blue Jays, no matter how you cut it, simply aren’t anywhere close, the road they’re on is about to end and the time for them to choose a direction is nigh.
Suntouchable13
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Offence has to be a huge priority. If they average 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 runs per game next year they will win lots of games with their starting pitching.
I know I'm a broken record about it. But Shapiro and Atkins talking about payroll and nibbling in free agency to round of the roster means absolutely squat if they head into the season with Vladdy unsigned. That's the only news I care for right now.
Suntouchable13
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Yes, you're exactly right. Vladdy needs to be signed first and foremost. But also, there is no "rounding out the roster" they have to go get impact bats. Otherwise, they are just wasting everyone's time.
tmlfan98
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LOL who's ready to be a bridesmaid and not the bride again?
Suntouchable13
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I don't even know if it makes much sense. They need more than one guy. I am not under an illusion that Soto solves all our issues.
saska sault
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Let's hope they have a Soto plan and a heavily researched and thoughtout plan for the likely scenario we dont get him. Pick a number, stick with it but actually have a plan in place for free agency. Last year it went from Ohtani... to IKF, Turner and KK... they got caught with their pants down as usual. If this team has a similar off-season, Vlad isn't signed and Bo goes into the season without being traded and no extension... it will be another year I go nowhere near the SkyDome.
trellaine201
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I heard he should be heading somewhere to meet with the Jays brass in a few days. Even have his flight number 
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