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Originally Posted by Parallex
Which is dumb because the amount they filed ties the highest ever arb award for players with Donaldson's service time. JayP is right it's just clickbait and column inches.
Huh? How on earth do you figure that? That makes no sense whatsoever. It says nothing of the sort.
They wouldn't "lose two guys like that for nothing to free agency" unless they didn't give them a qualifying offer and if they didn't give them a qualifying offer then it means they were really really really bad. I'm not saying that the Jays will keep both of them but I'm 100% sure they'll make a good faith effort to do so.
Yeesh, don't be such a negative nancy. They Jays are a very very good team. Just enjoy that fact.
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The article doesn't mention anything about them reducing payroll, but you'd have to be blind if you can't see that the direction they are heading. No long-term contracts (Happ being the longest at 3 years), refusal to consider any player that isn't under team control, Bob McGown and Brunt have also have articles and discussions indicating that is exactly what is being communicated behind closed doors. I'm not saying this is a bad approach, but you have to be willing to spend money when it warrants it and the Jays clearly are not.
I will fully enjoy being a good team next year, but there's no reason this can't be a routine thing if the mandate given to the Jays was to operate like an actual baseball team and not small market team in a city of under 1 million people.