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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
It's been reported they refused to give him a 5th year and immediately went after Pearce.
Whether they actually offered to Fowler or not, we'll never know, but nothing else they did would suggest they actually did. That said, signing Pearce was a joke. We went into this season placing our 1st base/LF eggs all in the basket of a career backup.
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I have it on pretty good authority that the Jays offered that to Fowler. They were in it to the very bitter end.
Fowler communicated to them he really didn't want to play with Cardinals, but the Cards kept coming back and upping the offer, upping the offer, finally to the point where the 5th year was offered and the Jays would just not match. It was far and away Fowler's best offer and he simply had to take it.
There's no conspiracy here; he could very well have been a Jay.