This is all makes sense and is hard to dispute. Although we should recall that Stroman seemed to be somewhat disruptive and not a great team player. Sanchez, on the other hand, seemed to have good character but he was perennially injured and in the relatively few starts he gave us seasonally, his performance was erratic at best. Despite what you say, I think that they were very patient with Sanchez. He was 32-33 with the Jays but if you take away his great 15-2 in 2016 he was 17-31 in his other 5 years and 8-23 in the 3 years immediately after 2016 with an ERA around 5.00.
I'd like to ask, though, at the times of the trades did you display disappointment that we traded them away? Did you say that the Jays were making big mistakes?
Non of it makes sense. I have no idea what your talking about. These two players collectively pitched 13 games for there new teams in two years. Stroman's era was 3.77 which isn't bad but not great, and Sanchez's was over 5. What exactly "makes sense" in his argument they were "bad trades"?
Then they became FA's and collectively are making close to 25 million this year. So if we wanted them and signed them, then we wouldn't have the money to sign Springer. In the case of Stroman, the Mets have much deeper pockets then the Jays, so the Mets didn't give a shit about the risk and had no problem giving him 20 million for one season.
The Jays are still kind of in a "wait and see" mode as they wanted to make sure Vald was going to become Vlad, Bo continued to be Bo, and Hernedez was also not a one year fluke before they spend anymore money on the pieces they need to put them over the top.
There's only two ways these trades can be evaluated. Either the prospects they Jays got to don't pan out in which case the trades or a push seeing as Stro and Sanchez did fuck al for the their teams, or the prospects turn into something and we win the trades.
