According to twitter, the Blue Jays are very close to signing Santana. Its not a done deal yet, but they are working on it.

He wants his offense right? get those W's up instead of focusing on pitching like he did last year

The blue jays are bizarrely well-positioned to sign him because both of their first rounders are protected. They only have to give up #50 (which would also bump up our 2nd-round pick one spot)

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Per @Enrique_Rojas1, Ervin Santana will sign a one-year, $14M deal with the Blue Jays if he doesn't get a better offer by 5pm. Suspense!

Wonder if the http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...hawk/siren.gif mystery NL team http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...hawk/siren.gif will step forward!

I wonder what would happen if the Royals tried to match that.

We need to match this, we won't, obviously, but Santana is certainly worth more than a second round pick.

So Chen is an unquestioned starter?
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We aren't getting a 2nd round pick. What we get has absolutely nothing to do with what Toronto would lose.

Toronto would lose #50, we would gain #29.

Chen's role is "Ventura's seat-warmer, until we get that extra year of control"

Unless Ventura beats Duffy so badly that they start him #5, then I don't know how long Chen starts.

Thanks for the clarification, I still would prefer a year of Santana over #29. This FO doesn't exactly have a sterling pedigree when it comes to the draft.

Not sure why anyone is even debating the comp pick. It's almost worthless. I can provide you a list of all the MLB sandwich and 2nd round picks in the past decade and you won't find more than a couple who even made it to the league. I get the BB America prospect guide each year and occassionally leaf through it when I'm bored. And prior draft picks almost never pan out. So who cares what Santana brings back comp wise?


Here's the reality: he is too expensive for us either for one year or multiple years. We've moved on. Dayton made a really nice decision last year and I suspect he's making another good one.

The way things are starting to look, manaea was an absolute steal with the comp pick last year

Wil Myers was drafted with the #91 pick. The comp pick would be #29. It doesn't matter if it is a comp pick, sandwich pick or regular draft pick. It is what it is, the #29 selection in the draft.

If the #29 pick is worthless then everything after the first round is worthless.

#29 is a nice bonus for 1 year of Santana