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turner9
The Jays need to dedicate the remaining payroll to Romo for the 8th and one of the remaining lefties wood/blevins/Logan.
Grilli can keep the 7th, Biagini gets stretched out for long man/rotation depth.
Save on the LF position by allowing Pompey to take the reigns in the left half of a platoon with Upton. Even if pompey fails we can try out Ceciliani instead
Trade/DFA Smoak and put his salary and roster spot to get Napoli on a 2 year deal with a fancy option. Seeing 1 year seems to be his Market atm, he should jump at it
vtadave
I’m not sure you’re going to clear much of anything off the payroll by DFAing/trading Smoak and his $3.9 million. Plan makes sense, but the Jays are already $11 million over last year’s payroll, so not sure how much more room they have.
glenncurry
I like the idea of those players but not sure how you get rid of Smoak without paying a hunk of his stupid contract. I think your budget is bigger than Rogers’ unfortunately.
jdgoat
Biagini needs to stay in high leverage spots imo
turner9
The Jays could and should be a luxury tax team given Rogers financial capabilities.
11 million over still leaves them 20 or 25 short of the luxury tax which should buy all your needs in FA, saving the farm
We’re in a position as a team and ownership to out spend our mistakes , offer an extra year/overspend if it’s for the right player. We will never be the Dodgers and just spend unlimited money but we should be on par with the AL East big boys
I’d also like Biagini in the 8th but that means Estrada back has to hold up. Sanchez/stroman can’t take a step back. Lariano must pitch the whole season and happ must also stay healthy
Hammel is a good addition but doesn’t want to be a 6th guy or would have likely signed
Wood is ok but also prefers to start, he would solve our depth and LHP relief in one tho.
So Romo in the 8th on an incentive laden deal doesn’t seem so bad to me
jaysfan77
Agreed
jimmyz
Instead of signing romo for the 8th and picking up one of the remaining lefties, both at open market prices, why not send two prospects to pittsburgh for tony watson and sign a reliever to a MiLB deal with an invite as depth? Or if you want to go bigger, revisit the Cutch for Vlad jr talks that went nowhere and have the bucs include watson and the jays add another solid prospect and a lottery ticket. Then Bautista can spend more time at first instead of OF but I doubt the jays want to add the 20 mil in salary for cutch and watson.
The baseball kid
Sounds perfect world to me
johnsilver
Comical Marquis considering a comeback. He was a 4A pitcher in his prime and pretty much had a rotation job by default due to lack of anyone else, even on those good cardinals teams.
Maybe someone needs a BP pitcher, or some Indy league team looking for help. Can’t see why a minor league team would want this guy even.
vtadave
Yeah how dare a guy try and come back to play the game of baseball! Scandalous!
ernestofigueroa87
Ha!That was good!
cubsfan2489
Someone’s awfully salty about Marquis for no reason….
ottomatic
Some of these guys have a really hard time moving on. It’s definitely understandable, but going out with grace should be a consideration also.
davidcoonce74
Marquis was once a top-100 prospect in Along with Jason Shiell, Bruce Chen, Jimmy Osting, Rob Bell and Odalis Perez. And Luis Rivera.
The point isn’t to run down Marquis or the Braves system. It’s just that pitching prospects break. Something to think about when you look at the “loaded” Padres system.
37santobanks
I don’t understand how Marquis is playing for team Israel in the WBC.
vtadave
Apparently he’s Jewish, so I guess that’s enough. Head scratcher still.
fettichico shiznilty
I believe Gabe Kapler was in the same boat
mcdusty31
I understand why teams are so cautious with pitchers these days but man, it’s kind of sad that we’ll never get to see another pitcher averaging 150 pitches per start and pitch into his mid 40’s like Nolan Ryan…they just don’t make them like they used to apparently
vtadave
Colon could do it. The mid-40s part at least. Probably not going to hit 150 pitches too often though, considering he averaged 86 per start last year.
mcdusty31
Yeah Jamie Moyer did it too…Nolan was still slinging gas though when he did it…I just watched to documentary “Fastball” on Netflix so I’m still a little in awe of how amazing Ryan really was
davidcoonce74
Ryan was a complete outlier. You can’t compare him to anybody. Most of the guys who came out of that “150 pitches per start” era were done by the time they were 30.
brucebochyisthemarlboroman
Agreed that Nolan Ryan was “the exception not the rule.” He was truly an anomaly.
sixpacktwo
As much as I like Arroyo I can not see any Inning this Spring for him. Look at the number of Pitchers the Reds will have in camp.
snakeplissken
The abbreviation for Cincinnati is “Cincy,” not “Cinci.” Better yet, why not just spell it out?
iceman35pilot
Only people from “Cincy”, care about such things.
snakeplissken
People who are compensated to write ought to care. It’s called constructive criticism. Here’s some for you: I was discussing words as words, hence the quotation marks. You need not have included them. Additionally, there was no need for a comma in your sentence. If a comma was necessary, it should have been placed inside the quotation marks, had they belonged. There are four punctuation marks in your post. There should only be one.
Greetings from Cincinnati!
Decius
I’m from Cincinnati and most of us aren’t condescending and insulting like you. Please grow up. Thanks.
Jeff Todd
I will change it. Why the shortened version? Because I had already written it out once in the post and it’s tiresome to write with so much formality all the time, that’s all.
BlueSkyLA
Cincy-serely?
Somebody had to ask.
Monkey’s Uncle
Wow, some people are really Cinci-tive.
I’ll show myself out now…
DelUnser4ever
Use fewer words in your posts. The word “just” was unnecessary to convey your point.
TJECK109
Braves should sign Arroyo to go with Colon and Dickey. Try to have the oldest rotation of all time.
Monkey’s Uncle
Maybe Jamie Moyer would come back to…
Cardinals17
For the oldest rotation, check out the starting pitchers on the Mets their first year! They also had the oldest pitcher-catcher battery in Warren Spahn
Cardinals17
That’s Warren Spahn and Yogi Berra. Casey Stengel was their manager. The fans loved them.
callmemabry
I guess now it’s Matt mhof
xtraflamy
tacky. rude. not funny.
callmemabry
Funny is in the eye of the beholder
Nats4life
So does that second UCL tear render Tim Collins useless as even starting depth?
davidcoonce74
Collins never was a starter.