Almost my every dream came true

Almost I heard you say I do

But I hear now in state all of the kind words you say

Oh how close we were all known

Hello and welcome to episode 1642 of Effectively Wild Any Baseball Podcasts from Vanguars presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Vanguars who just finished her chat with Vanguars readers

And now we'll be chatting with the Hello Meg

Hello

So I wanted to express my sympathy for Blue Jays fans for a second before we get to emails and a stat blast

Because Blue Jays fans and the Blue Jays are having a pretty tantalizing offseason but also an agonizing offseason

Like the ratio of rumors to done deals has to be higher for the Blue Jays than any other team

And I was thinking of this Wednesday because the Blue Jays signed their president and CEO Mark Shapiro to a five year extension

And there are reasons to be pleased about that I'm sure but that's not really the move that Blue Jays fans have been wanting and waiting and hoping for the team to make

They want some big star free agent and the Jays got the offseason started when they resigned Robbie Ray to a one year deal

But that's it, that is the only majorly move they've made so far

And of course there's plenty of time for them to make a major move or to still because as we were saying yesterday

There are many attractive free agents still unsigned

But the Blue Jays came into this winter with pretty high expectations which they set themselves like back in November, Ros Atkins, their GM said

Much like last year when we were active and to categorize it as aggressive is relatively fair

We will do that again this year and continue doing it until we are in a position where we're contending year in and year out

And then in December Shapiro reaffirmed that and he said there's uncertainty in the budget but not as it pertains to Major League payroll

He said whether it's for very good players or to elite players quote I'm 100% confident we will get better

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