Blue Jays Discussion: Off-season Edition 5.0 - The Winter Meeting Chronicles

[Canada4Gold]

if you are still watching sportsnet they are still making money, advertising makes more than the % of your bill allocated to sportsnet.

His comment didn't have anything to do with a anti Jays motive. Bell is better than Rogers, ergo his comment and mine before it, you should switch anyway

 

[Canada4Gold]

Nats after all the White Sox pieces, they need an outfield too so this makes sense

 

[Walshy7]

His comment didn't have anything to do with a anti Jays motive. Bell is better than Rogers, ergo his comment and mine before it, you should switch anyway

yep I did realize that I was directing it at the guy he was relying too. thought rather than go back and do it all again ill just leave it, I hope he wasn't too offended

 

[Canada4Gold]

Its just a media (both local and American) idea, spurned simply by laziness really. Also, some odd hatred a couple of the local media have for him...for some reason (McCown, for one).

Atkins was asked bluntly about it this morning, and answered that it would take a drastic overpay to even consider it. That ain't Blackmon. Heck, its easier to list the players who represent drastic overpays since the list is quite short.

if Revere was signed somewhere the list would include Revere right?

 

[Sokil]

re: the Pearce stuff - the old rule used to be you couldn't trade a FA until June 15, but now you can if they agree to go.

i asked this the other day, was this to me? (how long until a FA can be traded)?

so basically its a limited no trade till june 15?

 

[Kurtz]

that'll show em. "Hey boss you need to see this" "what is it Johnson?" "well sir I don't know what im seeing one guy left rogers and went to bell!?!?!?"

 

[Diamond Joe Quimby]

if Revere was signed somewhere the list would include Revere right?

Stop that! :

You know I hate Revere!

 

[Brown Dog]

As long as we're mulling possible homecomings, what about Rajai as a Plan B instead of Revere?

 

[Canada4Gold]

Stop that! :

You know I hate Revere!

Imma pull out my inner Sierra and not listen to your stop sign

 

[Kurtz]

The local media's willingness to trade Stroman for a bat is especially confounding given that our pitching rotation has virtually no depth beyond the starting 5.

We need to be adding arms, not removing them...

 

[Canada4Gold]

As long as we're mulling possible homecomings, what about Rajai as a Plan B instead of Revere?

Rajai would be plan A in front of Revere depending of the cost of course.

 

[Woodman19]

The local media's willingness to trade Stroman for a bat is especially confounding given that our pitching rotation has virtually no depth beyond the starting 5.

We need to be adding arms, not removing them...

Well the local media looks at his ERA and win totals and conclude hes not as important as Happ and Sanchez.

 

[Porn*]

why not keep EE and Pearce (who replaces Bautista)

 

[Garlando]

Rajai would be plan A in front of Revere depending of the cost of course.

My jaw hit the floor when Rajai hit the HR in the World Series to tie the game

 

[theaub]

i asked this the other day, was this to me? (how long until a FA can be traded)?

so basically its a limited no trade till june 15?

nah there were some posts a couple pages back on it

But yeah, basically a full NTC until June 15 that can be waived by the player.

 

[Canada4Gold]

Well the local media looks at his ERA and win totals and conclude hes not as important as Happ and Sanchez.

you're giving them too much credit. Zaun and a lot of the circus look at his height and think that's enough information to make conclusions

 

[Canada4Gold]

 

[The Nemesis]

Oberholtzer is a nice pickup to be a depth starter option. More like the Brad Penny experiment last spring, or previous names like Todd Redmond, Tomo Ohka, Roberto Hernandez, Felix Doubront, etc. The guy you maybe stash in Buffalo if you need a #5 starter fill-in for a few weeks due to injury. I wouldn't look at him as a pen arm for the MLB roster.

It's a minor move, but it's the kind of move that good teams need to make. the kind that doesn't say anything else about any other free agency/winter meeting plans or options but just quietly slots into the background in case we need it later on.

 

[Dr.Funk]

Imma pull out my inner Sierra and not listen to your stop sign

That is gold.

 

[JS19]

Revere is not someone that front office needs to target ffs.

 

[Neil Hamburger]

If EE re-signs, I would say our team could be better on paper going into next season than it was this past season.

Morales + Pearce >= Baustista + Saunders imo

We'd still need another OF, and bullpen arms of course.

It will be interesting to see where Saunders lands - if he isn't too expensive I wouldn't mind bringing him back on a short term deal.

 

[Canada4Gold]

Of course they do, and of course we won't. Latest news, Jays have interest in Mike Trout but Angels won't trade him for Devon Travis straight up

 

[Jozay]

would be interesting to see how he's worked in.

would have to be a heavily backloaded deal.

 

[Canada4Gold]

If we were to sign EE though that takes us out on Fowler you'd think, and I kinda have my heart set on him TBH. The OF would still need to be dealt with with probably 1 addition and it would likely have to come through trade since any signing would be too cheap to be good enough.

 

[Mitchy]

I still can't believe the Rockies.

At least it's nice to know my boy, Dave Stewart, got a job.