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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
What is this history you speak of?
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I'm not going to rehash the many examples I've posted numerous times before, feel free to Reread them yourself.
The Jays are widely known to be cheap across the league and with agents. Saying otherwise just makes me believe you just arguing for the sake of arguing. We are talking about a team that verbally committed to a pitcher and then went to the players to Restructure their contracts without him knowing and when he found out and he said no way he'd ask other players to do that for him and signed elsewhere. You are also talking about a team that had management come into the clubhouse after doing nothing in the offseason to tell the players that if they were in a position to make the playoffs they would add payroll only to turn around and tell every team in the league at trafe deadline time that they were not allowed to add payroll. Multiple Jays commented publicly on that.
Argue about the baseball merits of signing Bautista all you want ( I would agree), but When a team pulls #### like that, it leads to players like Bautista taking the hard-nosed positions they are., and when you are a cap team like the Jays every dollar counts.