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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
If the Jays wanted to move on from Edwin, I'm fine with that, but let's not pretend this wasn't a debacle. The Jays had Zero intention of resigning Edwin. They gave a veteran player who was loved by the City and wanted to be back a take it or leave it offer knowing full well he was at least going to see what was out there as he'd earned that right. When it became obvious that he may actually take the offer the Jays quickly Pulled it from the table. Meanwhile they sign Morales basically the minute free agency starts (can't remember the day, but It it was reported on day 1 he was signing in Toronto). The minute they signed Morales, there was zero chance EE was coming back. It's just not feasible with a 165M budget and so many other holes to fill, but the PR sideshow was kept alive for weeks.
If you want to move on from a player like Edwin in your organization, you just move on. You don't string your fan base along, you don't string the player along, and you don't use the media networks you own to try and make it look like you actually wanted to retain the player. You tell the player thank you for your serivice, tell the fans you are going in a new direction and you rip the bandaid off. What happened here was debacle and the type of the debacle that only seems to happen in Toronto in MLB.
From a baseball perspective, I think Morales will be a good replacement for Edwin (Smoak situation aside). Im betting Morales hits 30+ HR at Rogers Centre. I'm more concerned about the outfield than I am the DH situation.
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I think making a 4/80 offer on a 33 year old righty power bar playing 1B / DH is a serious offer. Don't use your anti Rogers bias to tell you otherwise.
Also they hardly strung the fan base or EE along at all. They moved away from him pretty quickly after he rejected their final offer.
By all accounts they got morales said we can still fit you in and when that failed they got Pearce and closed the door.
If anyone was stringing this along it was the fanbase (me included) thinking Pearce could play LF full time when they Jays basically said no