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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Really out of all those guys Cano is the one they developed and used to win a World series. Soriano they signed as an internation FA, than traded to pick up AROD which was a financially motivated move.
It's not only the Blue Jays, but several other teams who are changing how they operate their teams. They realize that in order to compete against the Yankee's or the Red Sox that they need to develop their own young players, and try to keep these guys around for 8 or so years in hopes of having enough good guys at one time to have a 2-3 year window to compete. Something the Blue Jays simply weren't doing enough of under Ricciardi.
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The money just adds more bullets in the chamber. The yankees can afford to go out there and add expensive, high priced, Latino FAs and pay overslot in the draft.
It also allows them to KEEP the guys they developed.
Jays have had a lot of talent slip through their fingers, and if they had the payroll of the yankees, this team may have been able to keep some of the guys that they had to make tough decisions with.
Delgado? Gone. Too expensive.
Carpenter? Gone. Couldn't pay him to rehab.
K. Escobar? Gone. $$$.