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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

MapleLeafBlueJayBoy said:
Also amazing to me that Rogers is willing to spend 700 million on one player but only allowing the team 20-25 million to improve itself.
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They were never actually prepared to spend that money. They just wanted to get the credit for being willing to spend it, while knowing they were safe because there wasn’t a chance in hell Ohtani would ever actually come here.

The Ohtani sweepstakes also allowed the front office to stall while other potential expensive free agent targets dropped off the board.
 
LeafGm said:
They were never actually prepared to spend that money. They just wanted to get the credit for being willing to spend it, while knowing they were safe because there wasn’t a chance in hell Ohtani would ever actually come here.

The Ohtani sweepstakes also allowed the front office to stall while other potential expensive free agent targets dropped off the board.
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Exactly this. However, they got the fans hopes up with such a monster “offer” and “money available. They’ll do the same thing this year but tampering expectations with floating out the 20-25mill number, so when they inevitably don’t sign anyone good, then spend that 20-25 to fill out the roster, they can say that’s all they had unless they were able to land the big fish. They have no real plans of landing any big fish. They just don’t want fans to turn on them too fast
 
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