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Originally Posted by flambers
Almost every move,
Going into the off-season with neither Bo or Vladdy signed, and thinking they could at track a big name player? Clearly there are issues within Toronto... Why would high end players want to choose Toronto?
Wasting time on Soto,
Targeting players who clearly had no intention to sign
I would be curious from management, what is the plan?
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I truly believe the team was in a good position a few years ago pretty much at the start of covid. The prospect pool looked to be coming along, but then Atkins started making large trades of these prospects. The two prospects for one guy back started killing them. The Barrios trade worked out and you could say others did too, arguably, but when they were highly touted at the time and you were giving so many of them up, it really banked on this team having the ability to win ahead of its time. I think they simply gave too many prospects up too fast and when some of those deals didn't work out, you didn't have the prospects to call up. Prior to that Atkins was terrible at trading declining assets for something (Bautista, Encarnacion, Donaldson, etc). He seems to be willing to dump prospect capital too easily at one point. Recently he seems to have dealt Kikuchi for a good return but those type of deals should've been done before, and he should not have given up so many prospects so easily. Now that they've done renovations, I really believe it's about piecing together a team to just compete. But a tear down will happen at some point if this team doesn't perform. Bo is almost certainly gone, and Vlad seems to be a wildcard. When you hear Kevin Barker speak (he's married to Hazel Mae), he thinks Vlad will be gone too. He may have the inside track on that. I can't argue with that theory given the Santander signing as a backup in case that were to happen. I do want to see a retool though.