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Originally Posted by jayswin
What's really hurting about Jays management decided to suck one more year out of this core is that almost every tradable asset is quickly losing value from last off season to the coming one.
Very frustrating.
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You make it sound like this team had routinely been in playoff contention for like 5 years leading up to this season.
They missed the playoffs for 22 straight seasons before AA saw a new President coming in and put his chips on the table to go for broke in 2015.
They went on a strong run and were a couple of questionable calls in game 6 away from pushing the eventual World Series Champs to 7 games.
They brought back a lot of that core less David Price for last year and were leading the Division at the deadline last year while filling their building every night?
You think that team is going to up and trade off all their better players in that position? Give me a fata'ing break.
Even with the second half struggles they still made the LCS last year.
So in the off season the guys with good trade value are basically the same guys they still have today. Donaldson, Sanchez, Osuna. In fact I'd argue Marcus Stroman has increased his a lot so far this year vs. last year. Bautista may actually have more value with his current contract than he did last year. Morales would have some value too, probably more than EE due to the lower dollar figure on his deal. Guys like Martin and Tulowitzki were always going to be very hard to trade later on given the money they were owed, their respective ages. I don't think either guy is worth less today than they would have been in the winter.
Guys like Haap and Estrada maybe had some value, but it wouldn't be anything abnormal.
Jays knew they had an aged lineup, and took a chance to try for another season knowing that they don't have the right now guys ready to step in. They now have a clear picture about getting younger, and they can start making the moves they need to try and do this. It's probably a 3-4 year process for them to start building this back up if not longer.