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Originally Posted by flamingred89
Which is infuriating. There’s also reports of AA not wanting to deal with the Jays due to the Shatkins rift. Keep that childish stuff out of baseball.
Sign Stroman to 5 years ~100 mill and reward good athletes who want to stay in Canada. There’s not many of them out there. And show the stud kids that the Jays want to win sooner than later.
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Yep. It's just hard to believe this management group is intent on winning.
It just seems so obvious to hold onto Stroman, and maybe generate a shred of goodwill with a fanbase that for a lot of good reasons think that Atkins and Shapiro are incompetent.
We have a really bad team, who desperately needs good starting pitching and doesn't have much in the pipeline for starting pitchers. AND We have a really good pitcher, who wants to be in Toronto and also actually plays for the Jays right now. So we what do we do? Try to trade him. Anyone you trade Stroman for is more than likely not going to be as good as Stroman. I know they're hoping for a Chris Archer type return, which would be fantastic, but for every trade like that there are a thousand Cliff Lee (Seattle to Texas)/Roy Halladay (Toronto to Philly) type returns as well. Stroman JUST turned 28 and is showing no signs of slowing down. PAY THIS MAN!