What I'd like to see happen:
1. Any pending FA worth anything traded for futures. Kiermaier, Kikuchi, Jansen, Garcia, Richards. Won't be huge returns, but get those prospect lotto tickets
2. Bo traded for futures. Below average shortstop, volatile at the plate. Hopefully a team thinks he's a tweak away from a hot streak. Probably not a massive return due to his ####ty year so far, but it's time to move on from this core.
3. Vlad traded for futures. I don't know what you can get for a 1 WAR first baseman with a peanut brain, but again maybe a team out there thinks they can tweak him and unlock the once promising talent. Again, time to move on from these guys.
4. Play the call ups a ton and see what they can do. Call up more guys too, especially relievers.
5. Go big game hunting in free agency next off season depending on what is still out there by then.
Jays don't have to do a tear it down to the studs rebuild with their ability to spend, and they have the makings of a solid pitching staff still, and some solid roster depth. What's missing is the front running offense/position player talent and maybe they can snipe some of that in free agency. Even if they can't they can still be a WC3 competitor and continue to sell off each year until a new core emerges.
They do need to get better at drafting and developing though.
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