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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

I dunno....

Rogers usually pulls the trigger on someone when attendance bottoms out. Ash, Riccardi and AA all got between 5-8 years in charge. Shatkins is nearing their 5th.
 
Listening to the interviews of Shapiro and Atkins recently you can really see that they failed at achieving whatever their plan was to start the offseason. That’s on them for being shit salesman.

As a fan I can only hope they pull a rabbit out of the hat. Maybe they get lucky dumpster diving with a Wood, Walker or Nelson type and salvage the rotation.

We’re really becoming to reliant on top prospects coming in to save the day. Talk about a high risk way of going about it. Really hoping Shatkins drafting saves the day. Summers are just a bit better when the Jays are a good.
 
It's funny that they're so "risk" averse when superstars are the least risky dollar spend in the league. What they are is cheap.

Betting the competitive future of the team on all of your prospects hitting at once, while they're all in their cheap years together, is exponentially more risky than that. But it is much cheaper.
 
MindzEye said:
It's funny that they're so "risk" averse when superstars are the least risky dollar spend in the league. What they are is cheap.

Betting the competitive future of the team on all of your prospects hitting at once, while they're all in their cheap years together, is exponentially more risky than that. But it is much cheaper.
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Agreed that the risk aversion approach is actually leading them down a pretty risky path.

Not only is it an "all eggs in one basket" strategy, as you say, but its also expecting that the fans will forget all about multiple years of 90-100 losses so that if/when they are a few pieces away from contending, the market is still there to support a higher payroll. Also hoping that young talent like Bichette and Guererro Jr., Jansen, Pearson, etc. will develop just as well at the MLB level under this approach as they would if they had other actual MLB-quality players on the roster. It's possible, but it's an approach that stacks the odds heavily against them. Seems risky.
 
Heard Atkins on Overdrive and he literally said 29 out of 29 teams would want to be in the Jays position of young talent and "flexibility". Is he KB?
 
I think Teheren is worth the risk. Only 1 year and $9M. Of course it probably would have taken more to get him to come to the AL East, but I would have done something like 1/12 with a team option for 15. He' still in his 20s and has been very good in the past.

Not a big miss though, assuming they're still in on someone else with some upside.
 
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