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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
What this spate of injuries may have allowed the Jays to do is to evaluate their depth heading into next year.
Schneider can replace Merrifield but will likely need to get more experience in the OF.
Horwitz looks like a really good candidate to fill the Brandon Belt role next year. I’ve been impressed with his work as first base and he’s a pretty solid bat to ball guy. He doesn’t have Belt’s power but it might come along.
Clement looks like he has cemented his role as a 26th guy who can actually play pretty regularly.
As a result, management’s job got a little bit easier in the off-season. They’ll have gaps at third base and CF (Varsho could fill in but we’d want to have a guy who can replace Varsho). I’m not completely convinced that Martinez is ready to play full time in the majors so unless they are pretty confident in Barger, I think they’ll get a replacement level guy at third.
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The Jays total salary for tax threshold this year is $215 million
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/toronto-blue-jays/payroll/
Next year they currently have 120 million excluding Green and Merrifield pre arbitration
They will be able to spend serious coin if they want