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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
The Steve Phillips article on TSN pretty neatly summed up where I think the Jays went wrong over this whole contract.
"If the Jays had made Guerrero a priority, they would not have been stuck riding the coattails of Soto’s $765 million deal with the Mets. Everything changed once Soto signed. A deal that could be made with Guerrero in November was no longer available in February. That’s where Toronto’s front office went wrong and that is why Guerrero is now empowered to test the market
The Jays have been chasing the Guerrero deal for a couple of years. Every time they engaged with Guerrero’s agent, the asking price has been too high. But each subsequent time they engaged the price that was asked for in the previous negotiation didn’t sound so bad." |
It's hard because if you go back a year ago Vlad was coming off two years with sub par numbers for his talent. I'm guessing the asking price has pretty much always been the same so it was justified that the Jays held back before seeing that Vlad could return to his former self. With Soto coming up Vlad was always going to wait to see what he would get but it just made the whole process that much worse for the Jays.
Time to go see if we can find another Jose Bautista ...