I’m glad we can openly talk here about pros and cons of blue jays players in a reasonable way. I think there is a lot of interesting decisions coming up this offseason. I wish we had a better idea what their payroll target is. Arbitration bumps are certainly going to be bigger this year and while maybe the Jays can bank on extra revenue I’m not sure if a public company has different thoughts to investing in the team than a single owner spending their own money.
If they’re not willing to bump payroll then yeah that’s going to be tough to improve the team since the players will be more expensive and not any better. Not sure if we can expect big performance bumps from anyone. Certainly not enough I think to balance the declines of players like Teo or Springer. I hope they can bring Stripling back for something more reasonable. We might have more room for improvement with pitching with a hopefully Berrios or Kikuchi bounce back and perhaps some new people like Ricky or such. Also having Pop and Bass full years (Pearson too as a reliever) should help too. Moreno is the wild card in the hitting. I think that plus the catchers (or Teo) might be their only trade surplus.
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