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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Plenty of teams make it work with less, no reason the Jays can't.
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And that's why the Jays haven't made the playoffs in 22 years prior to this one.
Either they don't spend enough money on prospect acquisition, which was a huge problem under JP Riccardi and Gord Ash, or they don't spend the extra 15-20 million to have all the bases covered on the Major league team. If they spend 140, which is what they spent last year, they will either need two good pen arms, a starter, or both. Making do means they will be an 80-85 win team again, and not good enough to make the playoffs.
It is fine to do with less when you've got a lot of good young talent coming up. The Jays don't have anyone other than Pompey and Alford (two outfielders) that are close in the upper part of the depth chart. You could save 7 million I guess if you trade Revere for someone and have Pompey be the LF, but he's not going to get you much as they didn't really give up anything of note to get him in the first place.
Just going to be nothing but half measures and more middling baseball. No lessons learned.