If Guerrero ends up leaving Toronto, it will be for the usual reason things go wrong for these Jays – they outsmarted themselves
Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hits a two run RBI double against the Boston Red Sox at Rogers Centre in Toronto, on Sept. 24.After two failed pursuits of the biggest free agent in baseball over two years, there are now a couple of things we can say for sure about the Toronto Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.Second, if they don’t have him, it’s because they don’t want him.
Same thing with Shohei Ohtani. How close were they really when the Japanese joined the Dodgers for $70-million a year? Young baseball superstars don’t get pushed off until they’ve done six years’ worth of performance reviews. They get paid based on what they might become. A few months later, Guerrero took back his former promise never to join the Yankees. Now he’s open to the possibility of going anywhere: “It’s a business decision.”
You’re buying a baseball player, not a retirement fund. There is no such thing as a guaranteed investment. Guerrero was by far the best option Toronto had at the time. What were they waiting for? Someone to clone Roberto Clemente?
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