As much as I feel dirty for saying this, there really isn't much of an argument to make for the Jays to win many of the remaining 29 games this season. Other than the fact that you would like to avoid the embarrassment of a 95+ loss season at this point, who really cares? I don't want to see Halladay and Riccardo get tonged on for the last month, but other than that, Hill and Lind have every reason to be happy about what they have done, and can't go anywhere for years. Scutaro is too much of a complicated situation to figure out how a lousy end of the season is going to affect his decision to re-sign, let alone what the Jays plans would be. Other than those 3 guys is there anybody that is a question mark that anybody really cares passionately about retaining? I cannot think of anybody.
Clearly nobody outside of Rogers, and maybe even inside of Rogers, knows what is going to happen in the off season, or what the real plan for next season is.
So lose! If they really are going to tear it down in the off season you might as well let the feeling set in now. If you are going to really try to build a contender then the money and your plans was going to have to do the talking anyways. It will just make a sweeter rags to riches story if that's going to happen. Although I can't see the Jays catching the Orioles for last in the division.
The only positive I can see is losing more and moving up in the draft. As much as I crap all over the draft for being pointless (Rzep was picked in the 5th round in 2007, and really has been more successful so far than 99% of the players picked, what does that tell you about the cosmic crapshoot of the whole thing?), the higher you pick the better your options. And the Jays will have a lot of picks next year.
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