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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Belt has one hell of a bat. He could potentially MASH in Rogers.
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Well... at least had, he hit like #### last year. Yeah, yeah... injuries etc. etc. if GM's were overflowing with confidence that they'd get 2021 Belt he wouldn't be signing a 1 year sub10M contract.
Not sure how he'll hit in Rogers. The air/humidity should help but they're doing a big reno and it remains to be seen if or how the OF dimensions will change.
Not a big fan of this. Varsho was really ineffective against lefties last year and Kiermaier isn't a good hitter. I don't like our best sub option in the OF against southpaws being Whit Merrified. If the Jays don't get closer to 2021 Belt then they've confined themselves to that to get a guy that's inferior to using Jansen/Kirk as DH.
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This looks like the team (I'd like another proven southpaw for the pen personally) so the 2023 Blue Jays:
Varsho
Kiermaier
Springer
Chapman
Bichette
Biggio
Guerrero
Kirk
Belt
Jansen
Merrifield
Espinel
Manoah
Gausman
Bassit
Berrios
Kikushi
Romano
Bass
Swanson
Garcia
Cimber
White
Mayza
???? (Gage/Pearson/Richards/Pick-up)
Oh... and Ryu at some point presumably.
Thoughts?