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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
In my opinion, I don't believe for a second they extended that offer. As I demonstrated above, once Morales was signed it doesn't fit into their budget.
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For sure. I agree that once they signed Morales the 80M offer was off the table. The timeline extension was made before that
This is the most complete and IMHO fair review of the timeline that I've seen:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb...s-encarnacion/
It highlights that the Jays appear to be pretty transparent with EE about them moving on. It also appears that both sides were making assumptions about the other side, that ended up being wrong.
I think the agent bungled this badly. With 20/20 now, once can suggest that the Jays could have been more patient, but tough to say that based on what they thought they knew at the time.