The Blue Jays 2019 Season
- Thread starter Phil C. McNasty
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The Blue Jays payroll (as of today) for 2019 is $57,179,000 (including T.T.'s salary) & $16,929,000 in '20.
The club will come nowhere close to the luxury tax threshold in '19, or '20.
As of today, Toronto's salary commitments for 2021 are $7.929,000, including T.T.'s $4,000,000 buyout.
It does sound ridiculous but I don't think that it is all that uncommon. Different sports with different economics but the Leafs ate a bunch of contracts as well.
There are other factors that hinder the possibility of luring free agents. One of the big ones is the field. Most players do not care for playing on turf. Other considerations such as crossing the border, the exchange rate, living away from friends/family also add in to the equation.
On the other hand, there are lot's of reasons to play in Toronto. Safe, clean city compared to many venues in the USA. Good place to have your family, even if it is for the summer. Never have to play a game in bad weather. Lot's of massage parlors (probably not in their brochure, at least the official one).
But one of the biggest deterrents to not being able to attract free agents is not having a team that has a chance to win it all.
Getting back to what Shack has been trying to impress, they are a big market and can afford to spend the money, but they have a shitty management team that is trying to run them like they are a small market team. That type of style is hit and miss, and usually more miss.
You are exactly right, shack keeps giving these examples from 25 years ago, nobody wanted clemens so he took roids and toronto took him, all other players he pointed out were 36 years old plus. Toronto hasn't landed a big name free agent in decades, they got granderson 10 years past his prime. FAs will never come here in their prime, only at the end when their options are limited.
Exactly.
And the only way thats ever going to change is when the owners start spending big bucks on top free agents
None of that has anything to do with the size of the market that Toronto has at its' disposal. That is the crux of our debate. Not whether they can get free agents or not. Phis wants to use that as proof that Toronto is not a big market. What they need to do and how to do it is a separate discussion, but Toronto has the resources to do anything they want to do.
The one and only factor that determines the size of the market is the population.
I agree. But that is something that a team with a big market and lots of money can do. That is the Jays situation.
So we agree that Toronto has a big market (35 million) but refuses to do what a big market team CAN do to help create a winning team. Thanks for agreeing with me Phil. That has been my point all along.
geez i like baseball talk....but this money talk, yuck. I want Al Diaz back. This kid they picke dup rule 5..i was looking to see if he threw high nineties or even a hundred...but another low 90s guy. We seem to be the only team without a high nineties or 100 mph reliever
Does that represent the size of our chances of winning more games than last year?
The Blue Jays don't win the division in 2015 or make the playoffs in 2016 without the Tulowitzki deal.
Bingo! You and i always speaking the same language. I’ll post vids of some of his clutch HR’s in the play offs.
Right move at the right time.
Huh???
I think what you're trying to say is the Jays are dead with or without Tulo, right???
