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I think the Jays will be very competitive next year. Johnson had an off year this season due to injury. Getting Buerle and Johnson should give two solid starters each capable of 13 -16 wins. Reyes is a fine SS who is fast and smart at the plate. Typical Marlins under Loria. I'd hate to be a fan of the Fish with that guy running the show down there.
 
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Marlins team salary is now $17 million for next season. Down from over 100 million prior to the start of last season.

their entire team makes less than 66% of what A-Rod makes.
 
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Oh yeah and all this after Jeffrey Loria fleeced the government for hundreds of millions to build a stadium.
 
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BKerr said:
Marlins team salary is now $17 million for next season. Down from over 100 million prior to the start of last season.

their entire team makes less than 66% of what A-Rod makes.
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Welcome to your new ballpark. Dave Cameron at Fangraphs has a good article about this deal: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/for-marlins-perception-is-now-reality/ Crux of the article:
Developing young stars through prospect accumulation is great if you actually plan on keeping them long enough to try and win. But no one thinks that’s what Jeffrey Loria is trying to do anymore. Now, he’s just the greedy bastard who ruined baseball in Montreal, only with yet another evil deed on his resume. He’s basically a cartoon villain at this point. He’s the wench who owned the Cleveland Indians in Major League, only if she also threw kittens in a wood-chipper in her spare time.
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why? he didnt void it when the Red Sox did the same thing last year
 
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It isn't good for the game when a team can sign that many guys then cut them all loose and drop down to a 17 million payroll. The Siths have done it before. They need to be stopped.

At least the Red Sox try to win.
 
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I thought it was the (lack of) fans fault?
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Ultimately, their move from Montreal was, but the Siths played a major part as well, telling guys like Xpofan he would build them a stadium, even going so far as to have a model built, then "delaying" the construction, not showing up for events because "they are never available on May 18" without saying why. Bringing in bogus cash calls to increase his stake in the team and then threatening to move, oppose contraction so that MLB allowed him the team he really wanted Florida, where he won then destroyed the 2003 team.

You always know when Loria and his stooge Samson are lying, their lips are moving.
 
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TheCountofMonteCristo said:
It isn't good for the game when a team can sign that many guys then cut them all loose and drop down to a 17 million payroll. The Siths have done it before. They need to be stopped.

At least the Red Sox try to win.
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So kick the Loria's out of the league and force them to sell like he did to the Dodgers' owner.

Punishing the Blue Jays after the trade is announced is not the solution.

How much motivation do you think all those players the Jays just traded will have to play for a team that didn't want them in November? How much bargaining power do you think AA would lose in trying to get pitching help when everyone knows what he was willing to trade to Florida?

You'd be making the Jays a victim here, and taking away all the major press and momentum they just gained.

Screw Loria and Samson, I agree... but you can't void this deal without major reprecussions in Toronto.
 
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