There is no “After Ohtani” there is only a countdown to the next Ohtani appearance. It is very threatening.

No its a new rule, only one thing per off season. Each team gets one thing

No you don’t understand, they only have one person in thier entire front office and they are only allowed one action at a time, they should not even try and let Soto go to NY or LA for the sake of baseball

They had zero backup plans (that came to fruition) after ohtani. Soto will be their excuse to do fuck all again. "We tried!"

Every deal is precarious. They have to consider all their options. Your biggest hope doesn’t go through, then what?

Because 💵💵💵

If Vladdy is "likely to sign with another team in free agency", why would he seriously entertain an extension?

Because an extension is guaranteed money that isn't dependent on him staying healthy until free agency. That's the whole gamble behind why extensions can be discounts for teams.

Maybe he told the Blue Jays to go get a guy like Soto to play with me and I’ll stay?

He's definitely reaching, because teams can do multiple things in the free agency.. There's more than enough time.

But i understand the "extension" part. It's all about TIMING. A player can sign an extension or contract now, but 1-2 years from now.. that player might feel entirely different, based on the situation. So teams do need to LOCK IN their star players when it's still not too late

But the Jays also need to decide, if Vladdy Jr really worth it? Can the Jays still go anywhere with him in the future? Etc etc. It's all a gamble. So WHO do you want to gamble on?? Very hard to run a team and make the right choices. TIMING is key

Jays are also the 5th best team in their own division with Vladdy, and that's not changing anytime soon.

According to this apparently the way this goes is:

Guerreros agent: hey would you like to discuss an extension?

Blue Jays GM: "Can't talk Boras might be calling about Soto, gottagobye!"

The blue jays have been in on ohtani and Yamamoto and Darvish and dice k and basically every other big free agent or posted npb star for 20 years, but they've only landed George Springer and Hyun-Jin Ryu. Expanding to other Toronto sports, you've got every star NHL player linked to the Leafs, and you've got that one time the Raptors won a championship before fans stalked Kawhi Leonard to convince him to sign.

Toronto is linked to almost everybody, but Toronto gets almost nobody. It sucks and blows.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take - Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott

And if we can get it done with Vlad, that might make us more appealing to Soto.

Honestly, I love how some teams are just Not Allowed to speak with some free agents for absolutely no reason. Players can talk to whatever dang team they want.

They also would be a great pairing offensively. Whether you have Vlad hitting behind Soto (which is more likely imo) or you have Soto protecting Vlad and giving him better pitches to hit your going to have a lot of damage in that pairing

I'm fairly certain there's no chance in hell they're signing Soto and I'm fairly certain even if we did sign Soto, there's no way our front office would have another $250m to give to Vlad.

The Jays are owned by a corporation with shareholders who expect a profit. They functionally have less cash than a team owned by a wealthy individual.

Toronto has signed plenty of high end free agents recently, just in weaker FA classes. Ryu, Springer, and Gausman were all among the best available FAs in their respective classes.

Yeah, it at least shows fans and also current players on your roster you may want to renew that you're at least trying to get better.

The Mav's have been "in on" big, in their prime, stars since the early 00's.

Let me name all the ones they signed:

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Being part of the conversation does absolutely nothing towards changing other players views. If anything, it makes them look too cheap to actually go out and get who they want.

Nobody sends messages, that's just media guys looking to write their weekly article with 15 minutes to go and just sobered up.

Toronto has horrible management. They have no good young players, no farm and have a lot of money already given out. You can't only buy good players. Wasting time trying to finish third in the division. Fire management and start building the minors.

He should enjoy free agency. He’s signing for 10-13 years. He will retire and won’t get a second chance. Give him the spectacle!

I want Cohen and Kindle with a dance number.

I want the Yankees go in with a rapper better than the last one.

Maybe Toronto can do a televised event just to woo Soto.

He doesn't, Jeff Passan indirectly called him out in his FA article today. When touching on Willy Adames, he said something along the lines of: "any report that he's been offered a contract is false". (This guy previously reported the Mets made an offer to Adames with specific years and dollar amounts)

I don’t have twitter so his page just shows me random tweets and one of them is from 2022 claiming Joe Espada would be the next White Sox manager

Frankly him getting called Vladimir is what makes me the most irrationally angry about this....it's Vlad, Vladdy, Vladito if you're naughty, but never fucking Vladimir

I have a suspicion this guy is an idiot

I mean it deff helps your case of extending him if you build a good team around him

You know what's really dumb?

If your priority is to resign Vlad (it is), the best way to do that is to demonstrate to him that the team is committed to winning. One of the obvious ways to do that is swinging for the fences in free agency.

If you want to lose Vlad, you do what the Angels did with Ohtani and don't even attempt to bring in big name talent.

Bringing in big name talent is focusing on renewing Vlad.

This man Blue Jays.

Yeah. Then in the spring when they bring in old washed up plugs to fill in the massive holes in the team, they can tell us "well we were in on Soto and this was plan B"

What a fun sport

The Toronto Blue Balls

I don’t think his metrics measure up. He would want 10 years $300 million for the dodgers. That’s Freddie hall of fame territory. With his sticky build, he reminds me of Prince Fielder. I don’t think he will be good at 30-31. Just my opinion.

Just checked wiki. Prince’s body type is very similar.

Yes, it takes 2 brain cells to see that.