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@sptsfan71 @jonmorosi @MLB Last year the LOWEST attendance was over 20k, in April, before the team had got going.

@jonmorosi @MLB until they start losing and then back to 15,000

Day 2 crowds tell you a lot about the attendance and fan support an @MLB team will have during the year. Look at the top rows of Rogers Centre this afternoon. They are packed. 🇨🇦

@DrewDark82 @jonmorosi @MLB Monday is a giveaway. Tuesday and Wednesday of the Rockies series are the cheapest games of the season according to the dynamic price chart.

@jonmorosi @MLB Monday's game against Colorado will be telling if they are going to hit the 3 million from the early 90s. I bet most weekend + summer games will be sold out though.

@carolstarr017 @justtwoweeks20 @jonmorosi @MLB Tuesday and Wednesday of the Rockies series will be an interesting test. Those are, on a game by game, same seat basis, the two cheapest games of the year, according to the price chart distributed to Season Ticket Members.

@justtwoweeks20 @jonmorosi @MLB Coming off last season, a lot of tickets were sold before the season started. I’m sure they sold a lot more season and quarter season packages too. But there will be lots of games in April and May when it’s not so full, especially weekday night games. Always the case.

@scotttyyz @EvanDrellich @MitchBannon MLB doesn’t give exclusive territorial rights to third countries. Note how all 30 clubs have a Dominican summer league team

@EvanDrellich @MitchBannon Don’t the Blue Jays know the Dodgers have a territorial right to the Japanese market? You cant point your eyes anywhere in Tokyo without seeing a Dodgers logo

There was a big boxing match in Japan overnight, and Toronto Blue Jays logos were on the ring. Not a bad way to make inroads in a foreign country, right? Well, there's one hiccup. With @MitchBannon nytimes.com/athletic/68342…

@Toronto_4_life @EvanDrellich @MitchBannon Yankees’ interlocking “NY” is a global fashion symbol beyond baseball. Most people who wear the Yankees logo don’t even know what baseball is.

@Bennett_F7 Schwarber is just a case of bad timing. If he were on the market next year after Springer’s contract was up and the DH spot had availability, he would be a no-brainer. As it stands I would rather map out the long-term future of DH with the likes of Tony/Tuck/Vlad.

I’d love Schwarber more than anything but it just makes no sense sadly

@V1ctor_S1lva27 Unsurprising if true. Bo knows he’s worth more than 22.05MM AAV, the QO was a paper move to attach draft pick implications to his free agency. This doesn’t mean he’s not staying in Toronto.

WTF IS THIS TRUE?????

@realdonnybun @RobWong34 What? You can literally go on Wasserman’s website and see Diaz among their high-profile baseball clients.

@S_Black53 @RobWong34 Deep state wants you to think that.

Edwin Diaz would be amazing, but I am not holding my breath on that one

@realdonnybun @RobWong34 Edwin Diaz is a Wasserman client, not Boras Corp.

@RobWong34 Boras loves using jays to drive up prices

@G_Bone_ @StefCaunter @DownToBlack It does when the primary factor in Cy Young voting is Wins and Win% in Decisions. A bad team won’t score runs for you and will cause you to have fewer wins and more losses than you would have with anything approaching acceptable run support.

@StefCaunter @DownToBlack Team success has nothing to do with individual awards.

Just seeing how Cy Young voting has evolved has me thinking about Dave Stieb today. Never won a Cy Young but he should have won at least a couple (and finished 2nd or 3rd a couple other times too). Instead? One 4th place finish. Deserved better from 1980s baseball writers.

@Josh_theJaysFan Heyman? You mean “Arson Judge appears headed to Giants” Heyman?

on his bleacher report stream: Heyman has Jays & Dodgers top two destinations for Tucker

@MattC1143 @finndub_ @JesseBurrill17 The reserves and pitchers are voted on by players and coaches, with a few slots reserved for the commissioner to assign to ensure representatives from all teams. The only choices the ASG skipper has are coaches, lineup order, and Starting pitcher.

@finndub_ @JesseBurrill17 They select the roster with the exception of the starting line up.

Reminder: Because the Blue Jays won the American League this year, John Schneider will be the AL's manager at the All-Star game in Philadelphia this year

@jaystalk89 @FoulTerritoryTV @Ken_Rosenthal That’s the point. The Dodgers are institutionally excluded from having the best access to the best amateur talent because they are big spenders in a big market, as they should be. This year Baltimore got THREE draft picks before LA.

@FoulTerritoryTV @Ken_Rosenthal Dodgers are a great organization no doubt, but their farm rarely produces impact players despite the rankings. Will Smith? Who else was brought through the system and became a good player?

"I dare to say, even if we were in a salary cap era, they'd still be winning championships." Even though the Dodgers are supreme spenders, you have to admire what they've accomplished as an organization, says @Ken_Rosenthal.

@Whatdayisit102 @Coach_McCormick @TyTalksBaseball @michaelschwab13 Tax planning. Instead of paying taxes on both a big salary and big endorsements now, you defer the salary until the endorsements go down. Plus you get to venue shop for the best jurisdiction to save tax money on when you’re retired.

@Coach_McCormick @TyTalksBaseball @michaelschwab13 Oh! Interesting. Happy to be wrong here. Why do the deferred payments then?

Baseball is not fun when a $300M team wins the World Series. But let’s be real, if Ohtani didn’t defer all that money then they are almost a $400M team. They need to get rid of deferrals at the next CBA. An almost half a billion team won. Yawn.

@216SportsRes @GreatnessMJD @GuardsJoey The Tigers? The Miggy and Verlander, Mr. I pizza man money Tigers? The Tigers have money. Hell, they are net payors of revenue sharing. They can afford to take big swings.

The dodgers will sign Kyle Tucker, trade for Skubal and give him a record setting contract, bring in more people from Japan, defer another billion dollars, and then their fans will proceed to falsely proclaim that everyone else has the ability to do this too The system is broken

@chrisFifty4 @216SportsRes @GreatnessMJD @GuardsJoey The players want the deferrals, and the team still has to put the money together because of the D-Backs deferral fiasco 20 years ago. The luxury tax takes the deferrals into account. There’s no funny business here.

@216SportsRes @GreatnessMJD @GuardsJoey Especially with the idea that dodgers are deferring money. I think that 100% shouldn't be allowed

@GuardsJoey Where on their roster are they putting any of these players? The Dodgers already have too many starting pitchers. They’re already at the risk of having to waive someone who doesn’t suck just to fit the roster they do have. They have 41 players on their 40-man + IL-60.

@sethkerzner @TheImpeccableG Some of it may go on MLB Auctions, just like Game Used baseballs and jerseys.

@TheImpeccableG Would love to know where this stuff goes

@kenwhitehepflc @Damon98_ By not mattering because all player contracts are in USD.

"I do truly believe recruiting free agents this offseason will be easier than it's ever been for the Blue Jays." - Jon Morosi on The Fan Morning Show

@SeymourFussball @WeavsIsKing We don’t get his Game 5 performance without his Game 1 grind. He needed that outing where the split was off to really get some time with the slider, and get confidence in all three of his pitches to become even more confounding to deal with.

@WeavsIsKing When you say 1 good game, are you including the 5.0 IP, 9 K, O H game he had against Yankees or nah? Dude had one game where his splitter wasn’t working and he still battled his ass off and his team won.

Trey Yesavage really had 1 good game and everyone crowned him😭😂