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Originally Posted by jayswin
I think losing Edwin and Bautista is kind of semi tearing it down if you don't replace them with anything big.
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See the way I see it is that baseball is not a star driven sport. The best regular hitter in the line-up will have roughly the same number of plate appearances as the worst regular hitter in the line-up. So replacing a good player with a lesser (but still above replacement level) player means that your team as a whole is only a little worse off (because no matter how good a player you are you're still only a small % of the overall team performance share... unless you're Mike Trout and the Angels). Now... eventually that all adds up but the Jays aren't at the point where it adds up and probably won't be until Donaldson leaves (at which point age will start gotting the better of Martin & Tulo). The Jays will have a major reckoning fairly soon... but not this year.
That's not to say that I wouldn't want something/one "big"... but the difference between something big (If you're using Jose and Edwin's performance last year as a barometer for big) and something average is relatively small.