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Today's trade talks are picking up once again as an interesting new report has dropped surrounding the Jays' pursuit of a starting pitcher. And while the Jays have lots of holes to fill this offseason, there is one hole still remaining, and that is a starting pitcher. We're going to break down this new report, discuss what it means going forward ahead of a very interesting next few weeks for this front office as well as a few other tidbits of information you're going to want to stay tuned for. But before we get into it all, and there is a lot of very quick reminder to hit that subscribe button, you guys are in peace with the support. folks a lot of trade talks are starting to pick up one of the reasons of that is trades are going to be more likely to happen than you know free agency signings this offseason in the sense of obviously there's gonna be a lot of free agency signings but the free agency class is a little bit weaker so the trade market is going to be heating up and a new report has dropped surrounding Logan Gilbert and there was an interesting article that dropped surrounding a Logan Gilbert trade and i want to dive into it i actually think it's a move that makes a lot of sense for this team right now we can we can have the debate about whether or not you know we think that the Steelers um i know why i just said the Steelers watching football today i guess um on whether or not you think the Blue Jays are actually going to go out and spend high amounts of assets for a starting pitcher but Logan Gilbert 200 innings pitched last year basically a 3.73 ERA he's as reliable as it comes he's been good for an extremely long time and Sports Illustrated broke down an article basically saying how the Jays are a perfect fit for Logan Gilbert but there is one player who Toronto should consider trading for and that is Logan Gilbert now i'll start with obviously this article dives into an actual trade we'll dive into a minute but i think just the player itself and Logan Gilbert kind of a perfect fit for this team and you know are the Mariners actually going to go out and make this make this move it's tough because obviously you know the Jays are a bit of a rival and all that but i don't necessarily think that it's completely out of the ordinary especially if they get a good prospect up there in the deal but it's interesting because it would be a huge swing for this front office and at the end of the day they're going to need to make a pretty big move for a starting pitcher and i don't think at this juncture that there's going to be a massive massive free agency starting pitching signing outside of maybe Tarik Skubal if they get heavily involved there I think their big swings are going to be for a bat right whether that be Seiya Suzuki, Teraki Sato etc but I like Gilbert a lot let's dive into his stats before I dive into the return here you can see he obviously has pitched his whole career with Seattle and 3.73 ERA last year 3.44 the year before 3.23 the year before he's been steady he's been absolutely steady he's a very very solid guy is he an ace absolutely not but let's assume that maybe they rematch Shane Bieber on a one-year deal you're looking at a rotation of Dylan Cease you have Trey Savage you have Logan Gilbert you have all these guys Cody Ponce Shane Bieber like that is a very solid rotation now the question will be how much it will take to get Gilbert because he's 29 years old he's kind of in his prime right now he is consistently almost Jose Barrio-esque going to give you between a 3.2 and a 3.7 ERA in 200 innings every year it's basically what he does almost every season and i think at this point it would be really really cool now the one question mark for him is the one year left on his deal so he'll be a free agent after this year so i think that's where maybe you could get him for a little bit cheaper compared to other options but i do really really like um this i really like this idea especially for a mariners team now that is probably going to be open to potentially trading guys just because they're in a bit of a retool a bit of a rebuild if you want to call it that i'm definitely not a rebuild a retool after last year and you know they haven't really had a ton of playoff success so there's been reports about the front office over there potentially looking to just kind of completely change it up and maybe it ends up being a rebuild at this point who really knows but let's uh let's dive into the proposed return here in a minute but let's first look at the starting pitchers and how it worked out right cease gilbert you savage obviously scherzer's gonna be gone corbin's gonna be gone you throw bieber there you throw cody pons they need some reliability now the proposed return i'm not a huge fan of so they propose either nolan perry or johnny king and another top 15 prospect paired with you know utility guy and josh smith or david schneider this is where it's rough because it does take two to tango here and at the end of the day the jays will have to give up a very good prospect and i want you guys to comment down below would you trade i'm not trading Nolan Perry, but would you trade Nolan Perry or Johnny King for Logan Gilbert and the argument for it is you know he's very very good you'd hope that one of Nolan Perry or Johnny King could be as good as Logan Gilbert you haven't for the next handful of years it's interesting i'm not saying I necessarily would completely shut it down I find it hard to want to trade Nolan Perry at this point but maybe he's at his highest value right I'd maybe consider Johnny King but also you don't have control so would the Mariners be able to give you know get that great of a return with only one year left of free agency maybe if there's an understanding they're going to extend him like if this was a trade deadline move it would definitely require one of those prospects but you're in the offseason you have some time to work around so that part I'm a little bit less excited about giving up one of King or Nolan Perry I think Johnny King is probably the one that would go out in a deal like this and he does fit the timeline for the Jays though there's absolutely no doubt about it and I think they have a really good like Ross Atkins said they have a good starting point right now surrounding the starting rotation but they need a lot of work done now if you're unfamiliar with Logan Gilbert we can dive into him a little bit in his arsenal here so he primarily features a four seamer touches can touch upward of 97 98 miles an hour has a great slider a splitter a changeup a curveball a cutter and I think if you're the Jays and you can get Pete Walker to get his hands on him he would you could probably make him even better I'm not saying he's ever going to be an ace I just don't necessarily see Logan Gilbert as an ace at this point and they already have their ace in Dylan Cease but I do think there's a lot of areas where you can go ahead and actually improve the uh you know his arsenal and at the end of the day depth is very important here you have your core players you have your Dylan Ceases of the world you have your foundation Cease your Savage and maybe Ponce depending on what he brings you'd be adding another piece immediately right and we can obviously look at some of the questions heading the next year uh Pons and Francis maybe you know returning Spencer Getty where do you guys view him Spencer Miles could start they could bring back Gosman i've had videos on that but at the end of the day they're gonna need another big arm and if you don't get Gosman back which i still think is fairly likely you're gonna have to make a move and i really really like Logan Gilbert just as a foundation the problem will be always in the trade like this the Mariners are not going to want to at the end of the day the Mariners are not going to want to trade him for pennies or anything like that right because it's against an AL rival and if you look at Seattle without Gilbert they're not as good of course but also again like i keep mentioning the Mariners are in a bit of a weird spot right now to where they could probably they're a bit more interested in trading assets than in the past and yeah it's interesting if you're the Jays though where do you kind of draw the line here at the end of the day i don't know if i give up a guy like Nolan Perry their number two prospect especially with one year left in the deal if you have an extension kind of in place then it gets a bit easier because who would you rather on your team next year Johnny King or Logan Gilbert, the answer is Logan Gilbert. How long going forward would you want that again? Logan Gilbert's only 29 years old, he's gonna be entering his age 30 season, he has a handful of years left, he has been the most or one of the most consistent pitchers in baseball and those do not grow on trees by any means and I think at this point if you are the Jays making a swing like this, makes a ton of sense. The biggest question will be where do the Jays actually end up in their starting rotation spot because you know if Cody Ponce comes back and give them some really good innings that answers one of the big questions if you come back and let's say you bring back Shane Bieber, there's rumblings about maybe even then bringing back Max Scherzer which I don't necessarily love, this will all depend but the trade market is going to be a lot hotter than previous years and keep in mind reports are coming out that November is going to be the hottest month instead of December because the lockout starts December 1st or whatever 6th whatever the lockout is, which I don't expect to last crazy crazy long but not all the time moves are gonna be happening in December because of that, so folks let me know down below again which prospect would you give up? Would it be somebody else? I don't know if I'm giving up multiple top 10 prospects or anything like that for Logan Gilbert even though he's a very very good player but at the end of the day here i am i'm very interested folks your support's been unbelievable it's obviously a very slow part of the offseason hopefully you're enjoying the football enjoying the hockey or the baseball of course that's still ongoing and we'll keep you up to date every step of the way nonetheless hopefully jays make a pretty big move once off season i guess watching