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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
TSN (Rick Westhead), now also reporting Jays budget will remain unchanged from previous year. Will be around 125m again. This would currently pu them at the 10-11 spot in MLB and not even in the stratosphere of the top 6. Says Rogers will point towards exchange rate to Justify.
If they keep the same budget, by the seasons starts their budget is likely to be in the lower half of the league as player salaries are escalating and the other teams in their range are expected to spend.
I don't expect Toronto to spend like the Dodgers or Yankees, but they can and should be spending more when it makes sense. It makes sense now. This is not a small market team.
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Originally Posted by Caged Great
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.
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That's just bad GM if 140 million is spent and they still need 3 arms.
Now the farm is totally depleted there really isn't a future.