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The lockout may already be a week old, but there’s still a surprising amount of Blue Jays news to talk about. The Jays reportedly made a huge push for Corey Seager, they’re reportedly aggressively in on Seiya Suzuki, they apparently very nearly signed Noah Syndergaard, they added a player and lost two in the minor league Rule 5 draft, they dealt with a classic Morosi-style “rumour” (i.e. his own speculation deceptively framed as something much more concrete) about the Mets’ managerial vacancy and Pete Walker, the Freddie Freeman stuff might be real, and they still have a lot of work to do once the lockout is lifted (and many ways to do it, as excellently documented by Ben Nicholson-Smith in a recent trade market breakdown for Sportsnet).
So let’s talk about it! By which I mean, let’s open up the ol’ mail bag!
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Hi Stoeten, here’s a random one for you. It strikes me as a little odd that both of the Springer and Berrios signings were broken on Twitter by somewhat lesser known baseball writers (no disrespect to BKuh, who, since that signing is much less, uh, lesser known).
Do you think Shapiro/Atkins/someone else in the organization choose to intentionally leak big news to up and coming baseball writers for…some reason? Maybe to develop relationships with the next generation of baseball writers/reporters and hopefully curry favour from them and get more positive coverage? Am I going crazy thinking of things like this in the absence of actual baseball news? (Don’t answer that last one). Also, not a question but a sincere thank you from me for never letting people forget that as great as the Jays’ new Spring Training facility is, it was still largely paid for by taxpayers and not the multi-billion dollar corporation that owns them. I understand that’s how these things typically work, but it doesn’t mean it should be.
Cheers,
Josh
I would love if the Jays could score a trade for Jose Ramirez or Matt Chapman - but do you think a package w Kirk and Gurriel Jr as the headliners (that seems to be the package I hear the most talked about - along w picks and/or a lower prospect or two) would really be enough to get it done? Haha just saw @Joe N's question pop up... now THAT's optimism I'd buy for a dollar.