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It was pure desperation mixed in with not being so well connected in the baseball circles (foreign player but regular MLB agent).

This wasn't acquiring international money one or two weeks ago to load up the war chest in the final stretches to signal they are interested before they even meet. This was days after meeting him and hours before he made a decision that they scrambled to get some more money.

It's absolute egg on the face when after all that work (going back the Cleveland, where, as I said earlier, it's the only team that they can get things done with due to Shaprios connections) and taking on an anchor contract to get $2M, and less then half a day later have it go sideways.

Whoever was feeding them intel should be fired, a complete f up in this case, and maybe they are the same sources feeding them erroneous info on the state of the UFA market and with specific player stuations this whole time?

They are paying a literally, stats wise, the worst hitter in the league, top 6 team money for 2 years. He may never play for them. All to get international money they can't use. Sasaki probably had made his mind up already with the time change in Japan when that Jays consummated the trade. Unreal.

It's one thing to be bridesmaid in this case, it's another to recklessly set back their roster and salary structure in such a sudden attempt to not be bridesmaid, that clearly made no difference in the players decision, hours later.

Whatever patience the Rogers folks have with the current executive, has to be at the end of the rope. These guys aren't connected, they are misreading the market, unable to close UFAs, have no backup plan, and have a promising team a few short years ago, with some good talent and pitching, now circling the drain. And now, they are making desperate knee jerk reactions which set the team back further.