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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
I agree that the trade market for a top 1/2 of the rotation starting pitcher is remarkable right now. My "pay money like Dickey was a FA" point is that an extension, I would suspect, would be a 2-3 deal that would add money to his 2013 salary so he wouldn't earn just $5M. Regardless, the amount of money the Jays will pay Dickey to have the trade go through and keep him with the team beyond a 1-year rental will be similar to that which they would have had to have paid a FA. The benefit, however, to signing someone like Sanchez or Jackson is that you wouldn't have to give up any assets.
To me, the Dickey deal was the absolute worst case scenario - pay an old guy a ton of money, a guy that to me is not proven to be worth what the Jays gave up or what they are reportedly going to pay him, and they had to give up significant assets to gain the ability to sign him to an extension.
I get a certain degree of the sentiment that prospects are there largely to get proven players (which is ironic on a Flames site), but the quality and number (2) of prospects for Dickey is something I'm just not on board with.
I hope the deal falls apart and AA picks up someone else for the rotation on the FA ticker or waits until spring training and deals with someone like LA who has an excess of SPs. If the deal goes through, I hope I'm wrong and Toronto wins a WS within a couple years.
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Edwin Jackson is a terrible pitcher who stays healthy and with Sanchez, who's to say the Jays didn't inquire about him or that he would have just re-signed with the Tigers anyways? Also, there's a ton of risk in his contract and could handicap the Jays financially going forward. I've got some pretty strong opinions about this however and think I'm going to stay quiet till the actual trade is announced and we see how much he signs for and who the Jays get back. It's been awesome debate, just a little exhausted talking hypotheticals right now lol.