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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
They insinuated tons of times that they wanted Edwin back even after they signed Morales. That is pure BS. They ran those "timeline" articles through sportsnet after.
The fact of the matter is, the Jays made an offer they knew Edwin wouldn't take until he saw what market was, quickly signed his replacement essentially the minute free agency started and quickly pulled the offer when they saw he might actually take it.
Quit with the whole charade. If they wanted him, he'd be here. Don't make the offer and pull it, simply say we are moving on and do so.
What's done is done, and there's no point debating it again, but that interview sure doesn't make it look like Edwin simply chose to go to Cleveland.
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Really the regret goes both ways.
You could argue if he really wanted to be here he would have taken the 4 year, $80M offer that the Jays offered.
Sure they pulled the offer once they signed Morales but they thought that Encarnacion wouldn't sign here for what they were willing to spend and went and got a replacement.
How much #### would you be giving the Jays if Morales signed somewhere else because the Jays wanted to wait for EE's answer, and then Encarnacion ended up getting a big offer a week into free agency from Boston and went there anyways. Free agency opened the 8th and Morales signed on the 11th, if EE really wanted he could have come back after testing the market for a couple days and realizing it was soft.
The only thing that Encarnacion regrets is that Boston didn't come calling with a $100M+ contract offer that he thought he could get.