![]() And even with Derek Fisher, the single piece returned around the trade deadline currently in the majors, that’s no certainty.Īs a result, even the very important gains the Blue Jays have made over the past four years have gotten lost. ![]() What must be understood is that those years of control only have tangible value if the players are actually worth controlling. But the conversation gets pulled in the wrong direction over and over again, and as Postmedia’s Scott Stinson pointed out here, the trade deadline was the latest example of message mismanagement.Ītkins drew particularly sharp criticism for bragging about how the Blue Jays “turned six or seven years of major-league control … into 42 years of control.” The comment was portrayed as the latest example of the franchise being cheap, a low-hanging fruit gibe that misses the point. It’s time to talk baseball.Īs a one-off, clumsy media moment, the comments in the Yahoo! piece would be no biggie. Honestly, the public doesn’t need to hear more about culture. His comments are disrespectful to the people who helped win the AL East in 2015, which serves no end, and helps sends the discourse back in the wrong direction.
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