Thirty six saves one year with Baltimore and you're telling me he's worth $47 million? His previous career high to that point had been 3. The most innings he had ever pitched in one year had been 87.2
$47 million? Damn the Marlins almost won the World Series last year with total payroll less than half that. Very bad management. Toronto has no business giving out contracts worth $130 million to guys like Vernon Wells it's only a slight production dropoff to get a journeyman for less than $6 million a season. Until they rethink their entire franchise building strategy and realize that the only way to be successful consistently is building through the draft and complementing a successful young core team is by signing cheap free agents, and only when necessary, the Toronto Blue Jays are destined to finish no higher than third in their division.
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