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Originally Posted by fleury
I don't agree with this whatsoever. What most don't understand is it's not like buying a used car. You just don't go in and make an offer. There are discussions back in forth to give an understanding of what's expected. It's quite conceivable that the Jays waited to see what others were offering and would come in if it was in their ballpark, rather than getting into the bidding war. In my mind, if Price really wanted to come back, his agent would be saying, "the Sox offered $32M for 7 years", we'd be willing to stay with the Jays for $31M at 6 years, or something to that extent to get the talks started again. If the Jays made the half assed effort and gave 5 years at $26M, they'd be criticized even further for making that lazy effort. It would also look bad on them in the FA market.
With the money Price went for, I'm glad the Jays walked. It doesn't fit in with their cost structure and it's a bad contract. I'm more upset with the lack of other FA activity which could address their SP and RP needs.
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You can argue for or against Price. Some will say he would
Make a difference, some will say he won't. We'll see in the season when the Jays get to face him 5+ times in a head to head matchup.
That said, there's no arguing the fact that the Jays have done nothing here. They took the money coming off the books on Romero, Price (pro-rated), and Buerhle's contract and used that towards resigning Estrada, adding Happ to replace Buerhle and giving the rest to Donaldson's impending raise.
This is a team that is 1-3 players away from winning a World Series in their ridiculously short window (money again) and can't even be bothered to sign some bullpen help while small market teams like Oakland have no problems throwing money at players like Madsen.
They haven't reinvested a goddamn penny back into the team yet when they are rumoured to have made an additional 100M last year as a result of their run.
As a long term Jays fan, I am completely disgusted. It shows that there is
Nothing this team or its fans can do to get Rogers to change their line of thinking. All the Rogers apologists on here like to point to them being a top ten team in payroll, but realistically that doesn't mean much when there's only Around 15 million that separates the 20th ranked team from the Blue Jays in 2015. 50 millions separates the Jays from even being in the top 5 in payroll so realistically the Jays aren't spending that much when you put it into perspective.