I completely agree that you absolutely have to develop elite talent within your own system to compete for championships. However supplementing talent via free agency is crucial as well. Washington Nationals did it with Howie Kendrick and Adam Eaton. Red Sox did it with JD Martinez and David Price. The Astros developed an incredible roster and supplemented it with Charlie Morton and later Michael Brantley.
Free agents are great because they don’t cost assets and only cost money, which as we all know Rogers has a lot of, but the Canadian dollar doesn’t help us. However those teams I listed above were really able to supplement their rosters with talent via trades because of their immense pools of prospect talent. The Red Sox adding Sale, Kimbrel, Porcello. Astros adding Cole, Verlander. Also the Dodgers adding Betts via trade.
The Jays are in a great position to do both, add players via free agency due to their financial flexibility and through trades because of their immense prospect capital.
I say go for it and grab Springer and Realmuto and trade for Lindor and accelerate this rebuild. Why not. We have loads of talent coming up the pipeline.
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