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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
but I might honestly prefer they save their bullets and give his spot to Hutchison/Stroman/Drabek to see what we've got.
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See, I could buy that if this (getting a league average+ piece for the rotation) was the only thing the Jays had left. But the Jays batting order had a black hole at 2B, a DH/1B who can't hit lefties, and a catcher who was I think a mere 4 plate appearances away from having the worst season amoung qualified batters in MLB history (and thus didn't qualify). The only one they've addressed was the catcher and they addressed it by signing a guy to a contract with $$ that Arencibia was due to make in arbitration anyways.
If the Jays want to believe that some combination of Hutchison/Stroman/Nolin/Drabek can deliver a performance on par or better then what Jimenez/Santana/Garza etc. etc. could have provided... okey fine but they should have reallocated the resources towards filling those other holes. The Jays must have budgeted the 14M a qualifying offer would cost to Johnson when they acquired him... I'm annoyed that they're electing not to use those $$ to shore up any other part of the team where there most obviously isn't an internal upgrade.
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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
This team can still be reasonably competitive IMO.
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Yes they can. But that competitiveness is entirely dependent on luck... IMO you never want to depend on luck.