Is the juice from signing Troy Tulowitzki worth the squeeze?
Shockwaves rippled through Major League Baseball last week after Troy Tulowitzki was suddenly released by the Toronto Blue Jays.
Even before his injury troubles, Tulo’s play started to decline at a pretty torrid pace and legitimate questions linger in regards to how much the former All-Star can contribute at the big-league level.
Recently on the Digging In podcast, J.P. Arencibia laid out the reasons several clubs will be interested in the 34-year-old’s services for next season.
“This is a slam dunk in the sense of risk however it is. Let’s say I sign him to a deal, bring him to camp. I release him — you’re not on the hook for anything. But let’s say this guy comes to camp, man Tulo looks good. He’s healthy, healthy, holy smokes, all right now he starts playing. He puts up numbers.
“Trade deadline I will make a big, big splash because of this guy I picked up who was supposedly washed up and was all of a sudden able to bring me some things. And I think that it’s a slam dunk for whatever team because there’s zero risk.”
And there is some reward there, too. As Arencibia noted, if the discount signing turns into a couple of prospects at the trade deadline, then the juice was worth the squeeze, theoretically.
But when you look at the odds of everything going right, it simply might not be worth the time and resources it would take.
“It’s just for me that’s a 0.000001 percent chance of happening, so I’d rather just not invest the time and effort in doing all of this,” said Nick Ashbourne, co-host of the Digging In podcast.
“I just don’t feel like getting into the Troy Tulowitzki business right now is profitable.”
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