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Originally Posted by cross16
I feel to many fans are giving too much credit to David Price and his impact on the Jays. He was phenomenal for them yes, but he won 9 games. Jays as a team still won 84 games without David Price and are starting the year with a better rotation, better depth, better defence and a better bull pen than they had for most of last year and so far have lost nothing off their offence.
Still have holes yes but I think people are acting like this team is going backwards when they are very likely better than they were last year.
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You really can't undersell what acquiring Price actually did to the Blue Jays clubhouse mentally. No doubt most of them were expecting nothing to be done and for ownership to once again cheap out and for what was there to be expected to produce playoffs. So it's not just the starts Price made, but how much acquiring him gave a jolt to the entire clubhouse and the mentality.
For instance if last season is repeated verbatim to July 31 next year, and instead of getting an ace the Jays do nothing, they'll maybe get a Wild Card spot or miss the playoffs altogether. But they won't go on a run like this year where they played a 40 game stretch of above .800 baseball.