Stroman had a good year in 2019 before he got traded.
His W/L sucked but he had a 2.96 ERA and an almost 1 to 3 BB/K ratio.
Sanchez I admit wasnt very good, but he did have a lot of injuries plus blister problems.
If I were GM I would've at the very least offered Stroman a 2 to 3 year contract when he became a FA. Instead they traded him.
Sanchez was a 50/50 case. Do you offer him a 1-year deal when he became FA?? Maybe, maybe not.
But Stroman for sure I wouldve tried to keep. At least offer him a deal.
AFAIK Jays GM didnt do that.
What is so hard to understand about all this??
Phil this is the last time I'm going to answer this or try to explain it because I can't explain much more clear then the example I gave above.
It doesn't matter what Marcus Stroman did before he was traded. The only thing that matters when your evaluating a trade is what he did after he was traded while still under contract. (which wasn't very much)
Once he become an FA, it was a clean slate. Your no longer evaluating that part of the trade. Your trading the player with his contract. So what Stroman and Sanchez are doing now, has zero to do with the trade.
The Metz could have gave Marcus Stroman 50 million a year. They could have given him 60 million a year. They could have given him 100 million a year. Pick any number you want. It was their choice to gamble their money however they want, and his choice to go elsewhere, stay, whatever. The Jays could have also offered him this money. Non of this has anything to do with trade. Zero, nada, not a thing.
So when you make a comment about how they're "quietly having good seasons" and all we got back were "prospects", as you of phrased it, your making a total fallacy in how your evaluating a trade.
If you and I are gm's of baseball teams, and we decide to trade centre fielder for centre fielder. The guy I send you has 1 year left on his contract, and the guy you send me has to years left on his contract. The first year of the trade they both make 1 million a dolllars and put of the same numbers. The second year, my guy is still under contract at 1 million a year, but your guy was an FA and resigned with you for 20 million that year, and they end up putting up the same numbers again playing the same games, who won the trade?
I can't explain it any better then this or the example I have about teams being sellers at the trade deadline.
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