2015-2016 Blue Jays Off-Season Thread

[JayP]

Glad to see the Jays were out with that contract. 180-190mil might have been reasonable, but 217mil is going to be an albatross for the Sox by the end of that deal.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

31 mil per..............yowzers. Guess those rumors were true that they'd outspend anyone to get him.

[CofR]

There's a 3 year opt out in the contract, so it might not have to get to albatross levels

[ClubFlames]

Damn, I knew he was gone but he didn't have to stay in AL East or even in the AL. Wish you nothing but failure, Price and Red Sox.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Marcus Stroman ‏@MStrooo6
You looked better in blue. Lol @DAVIDprice14

Marcus Stroman ‏@MStrooo6
When your idols become your rivals. @DAVIDprice14 @ChrisArcher42 #ALEast

Marcus Stroman ‏@MStrooo6
That's motivation.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Jays didn't even try apparently

The Blue Jays did not make an offer to free-agent pitcher David Price, who signed a seven-year, $217-million contract Tuesday with the Boston Red Sox, a baseball source told TSN.

The source also told TSN that the Blue Jays will not make contract offers to free agent pitcher Zack Greinke or to first baseman Chris Davis.

"If you sign a pitcher for $30 million a year, it affects your ability to build a team around him," the baseball source told TSN.

The Jays are now focused on hiring a full-time general manager, and expect to get that done in the next few weeks, and are looking to add a utility infielder, backup catcher and bullpen depth. The Blue Jays have already had talks to re-sign free agent pitcher Mark Lowe.

http://www.tsn.ca/jays-did-not-make-...price-1.402718

[Roof-Daddy]

Frustrating. Why couldn't he fricken sign with the Cubs?

***hole

Red Sox are going to be tough this year.

[bluejays]

Here I was thinking Boston was using game theory to scare others away. Who's option is it? Team or Player? What a massive contract.

To the point, initially it bothered me that the Jays didn't even offer a contract but anything offered compared to that would have likely been an insult. Greinke's going to be paid $33m+ in comparison. Where's this money coming from?

Also, totally frustrating to be a Jays fan this offseason so far.

[Fire of the Phoenix]

Red sox are going to be a powerhouse soon enough, maybe even this year. Tons of good, young players, better watch out.

[CroFlames]

That is an astronomic number holy cow. That is basically $200,000 per game in a 162 game season. Obviously he's not pitching every game, so the number is even higher, but he still comes to work on those days.

Just crazy how much money is in baseball.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

That is an astronomic number holy cow. That is basically $200,000 per game in a 162 game season. Obviously he's not pitching every game, so the number is even higher, but he still comes to work on those days.

Just crazy how much money is in baseball.

$ Per season = 31,000,000

33 starts * 105 pitches per start = 3,465 pitches

= $8,947 per pitch!

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix

Red sox are going to be a powerhouse soon enough, maybe even this year. Tons of good, young players, better watch out.

Yeah, Boston is set-up pretty well... immensely fortunate to have Bradley, Betts, Bogarts, and Swihart all coming up at the same time. That's countered by what big busts Ramirez and Sandoval have been but yeah they'll be in the conversation for a while.

[SuperMatt18]

Yeah if that is where the range was then I don't blame the Jays for not being heavily involved.

It will make trading Norris for him hurt even more though. Sucks to give up a top prospect and then have the guy you traded for sign with a top rival.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

$ Per season = 31,000,000

33 starts * 105 pitches per start = 3,465 pitches

= $8,947 per pitch!

Yeah... crazy amount of money in baseball these days. Manfield should send Netflix and the inventor of PVR's an annual "Thank You" card.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Originally Posted by socalwingfan

Red Sox have apparently signed price to a 7 year $217MM contract - guess he didn't learn from his good buddy Carl Crawford (edit: guess he did, looks like an opt out after 3 years)

He's never going to opt out of a remaining 124M dollars over 4 years at the age of 34. He'd have to be insane.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Reports are the Jays never even made an offer on Price. That's going to upset a lot of these new Jays fans in Toronto.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle

He's never going to opt out of a remaining 124M dollars over 4 years at the age of 34. He'd have to be insane.

He will if he thinks that he can get 130M over those same 4 years.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Originally Posted by Parallex

He will if he thinks that he can get 130M over those same 4 years.

I can't see him getting that. He's really a power pitcher. When he loses that, he's going to have a severe reduction in ability to get players outs. I would have liked the Jays to give him an offer so we had him for a run next year and over the course of Donaldson/Martin/Tulo's contract while accepting that deal would likely be an albatross come year 4-5.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Jays didn't even try apparently



http://www.tsn.ca/jays-did-not-make-...price-1.402718

So essentially the Jays are doing nothing. All the yapping about being in on Price, looking at Greinke, pursuing Davis, typical Rogers public relations bull####. Geez, I didn't see that coming...........

The Jays have essentially not reinvested a dollar of the money they made last season. They wouldn't have made an offer to Price regardless of the Boston offer, but now Rogers will have that to hang their hat on.

I don't mind them not signing Price, but only adding Happ and Chavez in a season when the Championship is in sight is spitting on the fans that support the team. I'm sure the usual suspects will be on here telling me i'm negative and it's only November, but it must be starting to be evident by now that nothing is going to be done this off season, especially after reading that TSN article.

[Frequitude]

Originally Posted by Parallex

He will if he thinks that he can get 130M over those same 4 years.

Or if he's happy with his millions and wants to go to a contender if Boston isn't it.