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Originally Posted by fleury
The artificial hard turf and tax situations are probably the two biggest deterrents to FA's signing up north.
Anyway, back to the signing of Martin, I got to think about it and I really get this feeling that there was a second half to that signing - meaning the Jays trying to lure a big name pitcher. The Jays have a two year window to win it with this current lineup. It really makes sense to win now and luring a FA pitcher with a good catcher is probably AA's bait.
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I think they make at least 1 more marquee signing
Martin's deal is backloaded, and I saw somewhere that essentially right now when you add in all of their arbitration-eligible players they are at 129m, or 8m short of last year
Paul Beeston said that they will spend more this year than last, I am assuming if he says that they are expecting at least a 5-10m bump if not more, you dont say that and spend 2m more...
so we are looking at 15+ left to spend, and thats in salary, not AAV