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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
lol
Ohtani is a top of the rotation "ace" pitcher and a 5+ fWAR DH....when he's healthy.
The only question is how healthy will he be for the duration of the contract.
The guy put up 9 fWAR last season and only pitched half the year.
Plus he's a marketing dream come true.
He's worth most of that contract, no doubt in my mind. Rogers thought so too, because they apparently had an entirely different "unicorn" budget for the jays if they had landed him.
There is also the attraction factor, and the truth is bringing even more talent to the jays would have been much easier with him in the fold.
Invaluable IMO
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Look how quickly Jays fans have turned on Vladdy. If the Jays signed Shohei and he turned into a pure DH making 70 million a season people would quickly turn on him too. And then they would blame him for the $50 beer rogers would be selling since they singed him. Plus, he's a different cat, he talks to the media whenever he feels like (which is not very often), and wants special treatment from any team he is on.
He's an amazing player. But not a 70 million dollar player because of his injury history.