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Originally Posted by fleury
I'm not sold on the cheapness aspect. I've outlined before that Rogers has their main business to balance out, and it's all about spending at the right time, and now may not be the right time to go with several large contracts as the team is still developing. But IMO, Rogers isn't the enemy here. If Shapiro were to do his job and sell to the board that the case is they need to overpay for a couple guys to sign here, and he made a compelling case to do so, Rogers would go for it. Something is amiss though. I tend to think there's a reluctance on Shapiro's part because they are doing Rogers Centre major renovations soon enough, and I wonder if that's one of his main priorities while leaving Atkins to handle the team build aspect. Something is amiss though, and I don't think it's cheapness in the classic sense - just a lot going on with Rogers where they need to prioritize where their limited money gets spent.
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Shapiro was brought in by Rogers to cut payroll and build a farm system. They wanted a Cleveland result. Low cost players and success!
The issue is ALL teams now understand the value in cost control, player regressions, etc, so smaller market GM's need to find a new market inefficiency.
Why do you assume Roger's has limited money? The only reason is they cook the books on the value of the Jays broadcasting rights so they can write bigger bonus checks to themselves.
Boras already called them out last year. And yes, that's his job, but he's not wrong
https://www.bluebirdbanter.com/2018/...-jays-tv-money
Here's another older article about it as well
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...article547204/
Everyone knows this is happening. They are the 15th most valuable team in MLB but spent the 24th most on FA's over the decade. And it wasn't because they were shelling out large contracts for homegrown stars.
They should not be given any benefit of the doubt after 20 years of this.