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Originally Posted by Matty81
Trading for price would be a major mistake.
The jays are losing buerhle, estrada and dickey next year to free agency. Going for a rental would leave them with no prospects and no rotation next year.
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Agreed. If the Jays were winning the division then I might have a different position because then the Jays would effectively be trading to win the World Series (not just to
maybe make the playoffs)... they're a .500 team and .500 teams have no business trading top prospects for a rental.
That's not to say they shouldn't trade for a pitcher... they just need to set their sights on someone that either has value years left (either contract or arbitration) or someone who's cheap (So not David Price). With regards to next year they still have an option on Dickey (which I'm leaning towards them picking-up) So they have Dickey, Hutchison, Stroman and after factoring in arbitration raises and Martin's raise probably not much money to dip into free agency. I'd bet that we see Norris and a reclamation project rounding out the rotation.