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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

You can see why Rogers loved him. He's another one of their clones who says all the right things, without saying anything.
 
CH1 said:
You can see why Rogers loved him. He's another one of their clones who says all the right things, without saying anything.
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Actually he's a step up from their blather, so they're in love.
 
Yeah, that was definitely less informative than I expected ... and I wasn't expecting a whole lot. Kind of cool that he named LaCava interim GM, but at the same time, it sounds like the key word there is "interim".

I do like his ideas on "collaboration", it's important to discuss issues as a team to come to the best solution possible.

Didn't say anything bad, but overall, disappointing and vague.
 
It seems to me that Shapiro's idea of "collaboration" is everybody in baseball ops talks to him, and he makes the decisions.
 
Blah blah building blah blah rogers committed blah blah Alex did good blah blah blah.

I want hear we are going for title next year. Rogers is committed to a bigger payroll. We will try our hardest to re-sign our FAs. But nope, got just Rogers speak.
 
Rogers SN interviewing Rogers VP so no questions about next year's payroll
 
CH1 said:
Beeston was probably the only president who didn't interfere with the GM.
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Fangraphs had an interesting piece on this, and considered Jays to be the 11th team to practice "title inflation"...basically the GM is called a "President", the AGM is called the GM, etc.
 
Also, he basically intimated that though this is his first day and he hasn't explored all his options yet, the decision to pick up Dickey's option will be "easy".
 
MindzEye said:
Fangraphs had an interesting piece on this, and considered Jays to be the 11th team to practice "title inflation"...basically the GM is called a "President", the AGM is called the GM, etc.
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Yep. It's definitely a full on trend. A President like Shapiro will hire a young GM who does all the grunt work (handle all of the scouting/player development staff) and come up with ideas like "let's take a chance on this Bautista guy in Pittsburgh"

Part of the evolution stems from the fact that you're now overseeing a multi-hundred million dollar budget.
 
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My takeaways

1) He's not as slick as he thinks he is, borderline smug
2) I get not divulging anything as far as offseason plans, but this reeked of a motivational speaker/team building seminar. I'm not sure i've heard so many business buzz terms that while sound smart, mean actually nothing. ( How many ****ing times can you say process)
3) He found a way to not actually answer many of the questions asked
4) The talk of the importance of high level prospects being sooo important scares the shit out of me. Like Blair i can totally see him dealing a player off the roster for prospects
5) Talked out both sides of his mouth. Under the right circumstances he'd do a 7 year deal, but only if it made sense from a risk standpoint. His first comment was how smart he thought the policy was.
6) **** this guy, I'm frightened.
 
Regarding Price and Estrada....i took his answer to mean....we need help in the rotation, we like both, but there are alot of options out there.

I see even less chance at Price after watching this and i already thought no real chance.
 
This team is a piece or two away from winning WS and he's talking about building and prospects. He's too conservative to be the gm of this team right now.
 
LaCava is keeping the seat warm until Shapiro finds his young apprentice.
 
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