The Jays are out on EE as per Phillips.
We have replaced EE with an inferior hitter in Morales and have potentially taken out a middle of the order bat in Jose's as well. This offseason isn't looking great so far. Granted its early, but as of now we have regressed than last year.
By my count this is the 15th time you've said this this offseason. Some variety would be nice.
You don't directly replace EE. It doesn't work like that, there's not really any EE profiles out there on the market besides EE. But you can replace the wins.
Morales directly replaces the value Jose provided last year. You can replace EE by adding an outfielder with a different profile. And they don't even need to be as good as EE because Pearce more than replaces Saunders who was a net negative on the team last year due to sequencing. His WPA was in fact terrible.
Only a fool would look at it and say we need to replace EE's 42 homeruns, and whatever RBI's, and Jose's..... whatever. And I'm assuming Gregg Zaun doesn't have an account here.
You have so much money to work with, we lost Jose, EE, Saunders, Cecil, but added a win and a half in Morales, possibly the same from Pearce with the added benefit he's flexible so it makes it easier to mix and match to find wins elsewhere. Add a quality outfielder and you're probably a better team than you were last year. Even if the pieces don't match up eye to eye to what they were last year. It's a sum, not individual parts