Blue Jays Discussion: Off-Season Madness the 13th: Report - Dickey extended, trade just pending physicals
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Sokil
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*he surrendered it, i know
Imagine if someone a year ago said we'd sign the batting title holder* for $8m/yr and the reigning cy young winner for $10/yr
Imagine if someone a year ago said we'd sign the batting title holder* for $8m/yr and the reigning cy young winner for $10/yr
I dont think it would be. Sure our 1-2 wouldn't be the best in the league (its still top 5, but id probably give that to the Dodgers) but our 3-4-5 would be the best.
Sokil
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Now the question is, how much is Rogers willing to spend to keep Josh Johnson? He's already making 13.75m....do we push into the 135s? 140s?
also, 125.6-13.75 = 111.85, which is 13.75m in salary coming off the books...who else's contract is up after this year?
Canada4Gold
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They might just be contacting the wrong players. They might be contacting the players who were rumoured to be in the deal and if they aren't then they'll never be contacted. I'm still holdin out hope that the deal is not as reported
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Best ROSTER.
Rotation you're probably right. But combine that with Reyes/Melky/Bats/EE/Lawrie and overall the team is definitely better on paper than any NL team.
We got a few more hours to find out but i still think its Gose and not TDA involved.
weems
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Would be awesome to resign him but If he bolts lets make a play for Halladay.
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dredeye
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With reyes and Buerhle both on back loaded contracts their salaries will be going up as well. They'll have to be willing to spend to keep him and I see him in the 20 per range if he has a good year.
HockeyGuruPitka
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Some rumors floating around had Sanchez in there as-well. I'm praying this isn't true.
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I very much doubt that but they were looking for outfield help so who knows. The waiting game has officially begun
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dredeye
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The rumour of the remaining prospects was that they weren't significant. Sanchez is very significant.
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Another underlying thing with all these trades and addition of talent is that it takes alot of pressure off a guy like Lawrie to perform and possibly even Rasmus (a little more pressure for him because his job might be on the line) but its not like we need these guys to have great years to be sucessfull.
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Still, look at the rotation. Pretty sick. Win NOW!
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I think 20M/yr gets Johnson pretty easily. If I'm guessing, if he has a really good year, or we sign him before the start of the season, he probably end up in the 17-18M level, so I don't think we'll be much higher than $125 if we sign him and replace the other $12M we'll be losing with lower costs (Lind, Davis, Janssen and Oliver are the majority of that 12M, and Lind and Janssen both have 2014 options for lower money). I guess the variable is our arb FAs (Bonifacio, Happ, Rasmus, Cecil, Arencibia and Lawrie), but I don't think those'll be huge numbers at least for 14 & 15.
I imagine the salary number for this year won't be much higher for the next two years after even with a decently large contract for Johnson.
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s his pants thinking about sanchez. no way he deals him. he is the most valued of the trio by the organization.- Status
