14 Mar 09
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Originally posted by ChaswrayThis year and next are a loss anyway. I'm thinking they trade halliday for a great young guy and a pitcher. Then they package up overbay and rolen and get another young guy. They they ship off wells for a young guy too.
Why would they do that, he's signed through 2010, unless it's a salary dump.....but he plays for the Jays.....not the Pirates
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That's 3 great young guys and a pitcher. Add them to Snider, Rios, Lind, and Hill and you've got 7 good players.
By then, Marcum and mcGowan will be back so you'd have 3 pitchers. Then you just make a few free agent signings, and voila...instant competitive team!
2 years from today, the jays could be competitive again.
17 Mar 09
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most of those "great young guys" will end up being busts -- with a small number becoming legitimate players and a very small number becoming stars
this is why the proven talent get such big contracts even when past their prime
teams with relatively low payrolls can be successful - but they need to have great scouts and a great farm system and a great GM who can repeatedly find gems among the scraps of the waiver wire and the later draft rounds
17 Mar 09
Originally posted by MelanerpesMarlins?
most of those "great young guys" will end up being busts -- with a small number becoming legitimate players and a very small number becoming stars
this is why the proven talent get such big contracts even when past their prime
teams with relatively low payrolls can be successful - but they need to have great scouts and a great farm system and a grea ...[text shortened]... GM who can repeatedly find gems among the scraps of the waiver wire and the later draft rounds