Hard to ask for anything more than what Gausman gave to Toronto, on and off the field.
Huge part of the culture and some of the teams most successful years, strong advocate for the org, all-around good guy.
On one hand, the Blue Jays' playoffs odds sit at 7.8% and it'd be imprudent to hang onto Gausman.
But on the other hand, the return for him – as a not-quite-elite rental SP – is going to be underwhelming, so just hang onto the legend and go on a damn run.
4.5 GB ain't nothing.
I am a long, long way from superstitious (that I’ll ever admit) but kudos to Dan and Joe and Hazel for playing along and not doing the “it doesn’t matter if I say it, it won’t change anything” thing. Best game of the year right there.
The problem with the Blue Jays wasn't that the guys weren't playing for each other. The problem was that the guys werent playing for three baby dragons.
Wrote about this today and the thing about the Jays inching closer to becoming sellers… sell who? Gausman, sure. But how much value does any other pending FA—Varsho, Straw, Springer, Scherzer, Bieber, Corbin, García—even have?
Opportunity cost of not selling isn’t exactly huge.
Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” has jumped into the Top 10 on the U.S. iTunes Song Chart, the 42nd consecutive year of people not listening to the lyrics.
I think what I love most about reading is that it's the one place where your ego has no power. It's literally the only conversation where you're not allowed to speak. You just sit there and fully receive it and you can't cut it off or talk over it. You're just surrendering over and over again, and I think we seriously underestimate how rare and powerful that actually is.
Sources: The newly reunited Tkachuk brothers will both wear TKACHUK on the back of their jerseys, instead of M. TKACHUK and B. TKACHUK. Those close to the situation say it doesn’t really matter because neither of them can read.