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Originally Posted by GirlySports
You're thinking of it as a pure baseball strategy. But you see the fan backlash today. You may dismiss it as short-sighted and stupid and that's what it is. That's the fanbase.
AA can't win every trade, he can't be purely baseball all the time.
Sometimes he has to give up something to get something. They can't all be Rasmus type trades. And in this case there weren't even assets involved, just money which pisses off fans even more. Fans want Rogers to spend and they fail because of an 'established value' that AA put on Darvish which in baseball terms makes sense but for the fanatic doesn't.
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I understand that and it's pretty much standard practice that your average fan is very short-sighted.
My main issue is this idea that the Jays weren't "serious" because they didn't clear some arbitrary number that has nothing to do with Darvish. First off, we don't even know exactly what the Jays bid - it could've been $51.6mil for all we know. But more importantly, if the Jays weren't "serious" then the only team who was was the team who won the bidding.