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I still expect a Whit signing, and they’ll shoehorn him into RF and pretend it’s fine.

A flip for a lottery ticket is better than nothing, but I still feel like they could accomplish the same thing on a minor league deal.

I was just about to ask if he's flippable. Yikes.

No surprise there.

Good luck to them with the ghost of Craig Kimbrel closing games against the AL East.

Jays traded too much for Varsho and he basically flopped, at least for what they were hoping to get. His ability to cover CF has been his most valuable trait. Kirk splits time at DH so there isn't much room to add ABs, and I don't think Toronto pays Bellinger without an open everyday position.

After all of the chatter last deadline and being two months into the offseason, I'm resigning myself to that too. As much as we've been dreaming on getting ahold of a few of Baltimore's stud prospects, I don't think the O's are willing to meet the asking price.

I don't think ATL is the preferred trade partner for most of us, but we have to view this through the lens of the cheap owner tasking his GM to acquire cost-controlled pitching in return.

Don't need any more reasons to hate my formerly favorite team...

That is true. I do seem to remember some rumblings about Manoah handling his struggles/demotion poorly.

Manoah was completely broken last year. If he were cheap to acquire I'd be all for it as a change of scenery guy, but Toronto probably asks for too much in return.

It's just very Reinsdorfian and all too familiar. Yes, it has a minimal impact to the total payroll number in a lost season, but it still seems like a waste to me.

Jays fans I know on Twitter are NOT happy about this.

This seriously might be to only silver lining for me.

Bingo.

Spot on. Stassi or Maldonado, not both. They've basically burned $8M on a guy at the tail end of his career hoping to squeeze just a bit more juice out of him. Seems awfully familiar.

How soon does the blocking et cetera start to fall off at 37? There's a lot of mileage on those knees/legs. I'm not opposed to signing a vet C and agree with the purported intention behind the pick up, I just find it hard to squint and see Maldonado as anything but a net negative at this point.

Gotta love signing a 37 y/o catcher for his ‘intangibles’ despite not really being able to play the position at a high level anymore. Then basically handing him the starting job because your other acquisition is a huge question mark, as is the presumed incumbent, and selling it hard like you just acquired the guy in his prime.

1/$4M with a vesting option. Yikes. I see Getz is just as bad at spending money as Hahn was.

‘Andrew Vaughn was rushed by those who tried to hold off the Getz coup’ is a sentence I never in my life ever expected to read. This thread has officially jumped the shark.

I’d prefer adding Maldonado’s experience to the coaching staff rather than adding it in a 37 y/o catcher with bad D and poor framing who will likely be splitting time behind the plate. I don’t disagree with the idea behind adding a vet like this, but it’s hard to squint and see Maldonado still being effective and or productive.

Garfien is out here selling this move hard on twitter. Woof.

110 if they are lucky.

This makes sense, except Maldonado is probably done as a productive player and won't be helping much on the field.