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Originally Posted by browna
Price was always going to be a rental from the second he got traded to the Jays and Rogers has always been cheap.
Not sure what's news here outside of some false hope propgated by the media with a lot of time on their hands.
Bottom line, anyone expecting Rogers to turn profits around back into the team after cashing in for the first time in their ownership, is out to lunch. They've held back on starting pitching the last two season at least, when its clear that the offense is enough to get the team 3/4 of the way there. But they cheaped out twice, and went back on a mid season promise in 2014 to get All Star break help.
Anthopolous basically sold his soul to get Rogers to bend this trade deadline. If, and its a big if, you ever hear any Rogers execs, I am sure the plan will be to see how the new president and new GM do, and that there will be money at the deadline if required. Of course, thinking its as easy as jetting in some rentals at the deadline as they did last year, and ride the wave to the playoffs every year, is foolish, but that will be the corporate talk to sell hope.
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I agree except for AA having to sell his soul to get Rogers to bend. I don't think Rogers was consulted on last year's deal at all. It's been reported in the past They are completely hands off when it comes to baseball. They set the budget and Beeston and AA are free to do what they want so long as it's within the budget. Rogers would Only have to be consulted if the budget was to be exceeded (like in 2014 when AA went to them and they said no).
AA had not spent his entire budget last year, he had room to pay with and he saved some dollars on Reyes. No consultation with Rogers required so long as Beeston was fine with it and we all know Beeston was not happy with the way Rogers treated him on his way out.
I don't think last years trades were in the plans at all which is why Shapiro was not happy with AA. He was supposed to inherent a team with loads of pitching projects. What he acquired was not what he thought he was signing up for.