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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Yep for sure. Hopefully they can build him up too. It'd be nice to have a youngish cost controlled starter going forward to help the FO transfer some of the dollars spent into bats. If guys like Ricky T, Yariel and Francis actually turn into viable MLB starters the Jays will be in good shape as far as pitching goes for several years yet. Then if they can't develop bats at least they can spend on them.
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Yeah, ideally two of the young pitchers (Manoah, Ricky T, Yariel, Bowden, etc) work out as true starters, and then we can re-allocate the money from not keeping Kikuchi into the bats.
Adding Kikuchi's $12MM luxury tax hit to Bichette's current deal might get you close to buying his free agent years, giving you some extra time to find a 3B/2B/LF who can hit. Or IKF's 7.5 plus another 10-12 should be enough to get someone better most years...