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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Blue Jays are not a small team. They just haven't invested well.
The key thing is to develop talent and have the money to keep them before they become free agents (which Rogers has).
AA can easily have this team kept and have a payroll of $120 million in 2012 onwards.
You won't see a good player lost due to salary like Halliday in the near future.
I really like the team right now. These are growing pains and they're 1 game over .500 90 games into the season!
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They didn't lose Halladay because of salary, but moreso because he didn't believe they would be a team competing for a playoff spot in the next few seasons within the AL East.
Realisticaly if AA is as smart as he seems to be, he'll be keeping the Halladay types for their first 2 or so years where they could be UFA by giving them 5 year deals when they first get into the arbitration years and than letting those guys walk after that.
As you suggest, money isn't really the issue for the Blue Jays so much as the means in which they've used it. They need to be a lot smarter with it than pretty much anyone else in Baseball if they want to be able to beat teams like Boston and the Yankees.