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Originally Posted by cross16
This doesn' tmake alot of sense. First off the Boston offer was not that ridiculous as Scherzer set the market last year with his 7 year 200 million deal so you knew Price was getting at least that. So if you weren't prepared to offer close to that you weren't getting Price, everyone in baseball knows that so why bother wasting your time to put together an offer that you know will not be accepted? The Jays would have had to been at last in the ball park of 7 years and 200 million and I bet they, very smartly I might add, never wanted to go close to 7 years or that much more than 170 million. I think you are insulting someine if you offer them 30 million dollars less than someone else.
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Optics matter, they literally lost ticket sales over this IMO. The casual fan doesn't care about anything you just wrote there. If all the goodwill and momentum from last year wasn't already gone, it was the moment Price's agent said what he said. By June, it will be like 2015 never even happened.
They officially confirmed that the Jays aren't interested in using their considerable resources to field the best team possible. All the people that jumped on the bandwagon last year aren't going to be impressed when they hear that they couldn't even be bothered to try.
Hope Rogers enjoyed the $100m windfall, because it was likely a once in a generation scenario with the way they run the team.