The Jays contributed no more to this than the other teams. STL offered AJ $10 Million so the Jays offered him $11 million. Thats how the system works.
All of baseball is guilty when it comes to overspending. This didnt just start last offseason, it started many years ago with the start of free agency.
But it is insane. Its nuts to think that Texas had to pay Padilla more than $11 Million or else risk losing him to someone else would have given him almost that much. And it does make me feel a lot better about getting AJ and BJ for the prices we did last year.
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