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Originally Posted by fleury
First off, I'm 100% in favor of the Jays not offering more than 5 year contracts.
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I think it's a very silly rule actually. The Jays have a crap stadium, the longest tenured playoff drought in the MLB, and happen to be playing in Canada. There are enough factors where free agents rule out playing for the Jays as it is - the 5 year rule is utter nonsense in my opinion. It would be one thing if they were a small market team, but it's one of the biggest markets in the MLB with the richest owners in the league.
This is all compounded of course by the fact that we play in the AL East, where Boston and New York have no issues handing out these types of contracts. I don't see how we can expect the Jays' fortunes to change if they don't start bending some of their self-imposed rules