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Originally Posted by Cappy
In the one league with no salary cap it is all too easy to rag on the owners to spend more money. Toronto isnt the only team in the league that suffers from this.
Minnesota
Oakland
Pirates
Rockies
White Sox
Even the Rangers a few years ago.
In terms of the off season, that is another question. Sound baseball teams with the pockets might not even want to sign all our free agents. Saunders, Bautista, Edwin etc.
We are one of the oldest teams in the league, one of the oldest power hitting teams in the league. Outside of a few guys, power doesn't age well. Do you push another 20 million per to two power hitters on the wrong side of 30? for how many years?
If the jays fail to sign either of Edwin or Bautista, i honestly don't think i could fault the logic. Would i disagree? of course, but I'm not the owners/GM who look at the Phillies with all their wasted money (still paying 133 million) and say that is something i want to follow
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I'm fine with walking away from Bautista so long as some big bat is brought in to replace him, but there's no way in hell there's any logic associated with walking away from Edwin. Aside from the fact that he is a run producing machine that deserves every penny he is going to get, if the Jays don't sign there's probably a 95% chance he's going to sign with the Red Sox or Yankees and remain in the division.