Kin
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TML fan said:Right. And that would have been known at the time the moves were made, would it not? So why allow it to happen if you knew you weren't going to stay the course?
Who is the "you" here? The only person in the Jays organization above Alex was Beeston. Beeston didn't know what the Jays wanted to do long-term because he had a foot out the door, Shapiro wasn't hired until a month later and Ownership's job isn't to micro-manage the team. They set a budget and it's the Front Office's job to build the team within the parameters of that budget.
But more to the point I don't really understand the question. The Jays had a unique opportunity last summer with the Yankees looking vulnerable and Boston looking outright bad. So I don't really see why it's hard to reconcile making a move in a short window without also committing to blowing an unrealistic 30-40 million dollar hole in your long term budget.
It would be entirely reasonable for someone above AA to have said "Make the trades if you think they'll give us a shot at winning this year but you're going to have to figure out a way to make the numbers work for next year".