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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
Also, can you actually name me a great GM in MLB that gets his team in the playoffs year over year that faces the financial restraints that a Blue Jays GM does?
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Oh good grief...
Of the other 9 playoff Teams this past season 6 of them had lower payrolls then the Jays had.
The year before that 5 of them had a lower payroll then the Jays had.
The year before that 7 of them had a lower payroll then the Jays had.
The Jays payroll is fine. I know you want to push the narrative that Rogers is somehow a miserly group but the Jays have been given a decent amount of coin for some time now.
And if you want to add another name I'll add one... Billy Beane. Oakland frequently makes the playoffs dispite perpetually having a bottom 5 payroll (as opposed to the top 10 payroll the Jays have had recently). I'd toss Andrew Friedman in there as well from his pre-Dodger days with Tampa.
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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
if they fall flat on their face this year due to refusing to spend any money
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Again, payroll is projected to be $10,000,000.00 higher then opening day last year even if they do nothing more then what they've done already.