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Originally Posted by Flickered Flame
AA was on MLB radio this morning, he said his next priorities are LF, 2B and relief pitching.
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In related news water still wet and the sky still blue. I jest, but the jays needs today are the same as they were when the offseason started all the upgrades they've made were to area's that they relatively were set at already (3B & C).
The Jays top need is an average or better 2B (average in all regards... Bat & D) and then a lefty bat with some power that can field a position. The line-up has become to right heavy with the departure of Melky, Colby, Lind, and almost certainly Navarro... all guys who hit either left or switch. We're gaining one back in the switch-hitting Pompey (whose a wildcard as far as expected performance goes).
My main targets if I were AA would be Jed Lowrie in free agency for 2B (Switch hitter, plays decent (if unspectacular) D as a SS so likely better as a 2B, and has a decent if unspectacular bat) and Michael Saunders via trade for LF (Bonus points... he's Canadian).
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Originally Posted by Flickered Flame
As an outsider, without drastically improving the 'pen, the Jays will be good but not great.
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Meh, reliever performance is so variable. I'd wait out the market personally. Really the Jays aren't that hard up in the pen... they have a longman RH (Estrada), a high leverage lefty (Cecil) a loogy (Loup), a mid-relief RH (Delabar) a mid-relief/multi-inning lefty (Jenkins). That only leaves a couple of holes and they have a strong (if not ideal) option for one of them in Sanchez (only not ideal because you want to give him a chance to be a starter).
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Originally Posted by fleury
What are the chances the Jays could get Jose Altuve or Howie Kendrick?
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Virtually zero. IIRC Kendrick already blocked a trade with the Jays.