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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
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.
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Morales is just one of a few guys that fit in the same hole. I think he was a decent replacement, but I have no issue with losing him over potentially signing Edwin. Edwin is irreplaceable from a fan perspective, on field perspective, and likely a locker room perspective among the current Jays. Morales is just one of several guys that you could insert into a DH position and at 11M the Jays could have had their pick of any of the tier 2 free agents they wanted, most of which lasted on the market for some time.