Report: Encarnacion signs 3 year deal with Cleveland

[Jasmine]

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/article/report-indians-encarnacion-agree-to-three-year-60m-deal-1.637355

[Matt the Aussie]

Well that blows. Easily my favourite Blue Jay. Morales and Smoak are quite the downgrade at 1B and I feel the team will struggle. Wonder how popular the team will be if they go back to being average?

[Jasmine]

Apparently the agent played hard ball and this is the deal they ended up with. Toronto had put a better offer on the table and the agent asked for more, Jays walked away.....

[Alfie11]

Apparently the agent played hard ball and this is the deal they ended up with. Toronto had put a better offer on the table and the agent asked for more, Jays walked away.....

Yeah. The Jays offered him a pretty good deal, I think 4 years $80M or something. His camp decided that there would be more of a market for him, and here we are.

Its disappointing for not only the player, but the Jays. It seems as if they settled for a notable downgrade, whereas if they had of waited, they probably could have brought back EE cheaper than they originally offered. Hindsight is 20/20, though.