The final piece of his legacy may be yet to come. People will perhaps remember him most for how the next CBA is dealt with at the end of the 2011 season. I think he will be remember for being that guy that hung on too long. There was no need for him to have been there so long. The handpicked ownership groups may also cause problems later.

Go to Fangraphs here to do Blue Jay player projections. The more people we have do it, the better the results will be.

I think he will be remember for being that guy that hung on too long.

I think he will be remembered as the guy who bent the knee to Don Fehr.

September 14, 1994.  Bud Selig cancels the World Series in his quest for a salary cap.  He insists small-market teams like the Expos need one to compete.

The Expos had the best record in baseball at the time.

Being a Canadian baseball fan I can say Selig's legacy will be the screw job done on the Expos and the subsequent movement to Washington D.C. which looks like a real lame duck move.

As a person who cheered on the Expos (my only game there was in 1994) I must say I love that the team has been either last or 2nd last every year since it moved.  They set the franchise record for attendance year one but haven't cracked the Expos peak of the early 80's since (came close in 2008).  Lets hope they start dropping faster and faster.  To my mind a great thing would be if Washington lost its team for a third time.

Bitter?  Nah.

My first (cynical) thought was that the next commissioner will be Reinsdorf.

What the others have said about Selig and the Expos. Baseball could have worked out in Montreal. And it's not like Montreal didn't have a place in baseball history - Jackie Robinson played there.

Please, not Reinsdorf.  1994 was fading blissfully into the deep recesses of my memory.  Forget the Alamo.

I just can't believe how many veteran players are going to be available again this year on the open market. The Jays should be trying to load up on one year deals at a time like this. You have to zig when everyone else is zagging.

GM AA better be fully committed to this rebuild if the team direction is going this way then.

I'd sign Cameron to shift Wells out of CF, Id try to get Saito pretty cheap even though we don't HAVE to have a closer just because it makes more flexibility in terms of moving parts in trades or whatever as we go through the summer (which is to say I'm taking advantage of the glut of closer types out there)

It'd be nice if we could do something along those lines with the catcher position - but unless you're going after Pudge (which would be just fine with me) there's not that much opportunity to do that there.

If I can move Overbay (my latest fetish there is to see if the Braves would give you Schafer for him) I'd be looking at lining up a DH on a one or 1+1 deal - Matsui? (He'd probably get up to the place of being worth draft picks with another good year), Delgado? Thome?

Again, if nothing else you might have a marketable commodity in July.

In fact, once Halladay's deal is gone, I think that - while the main strategy is of course building the organization - I'd be looking to fill every concievable hole on the team with guys who might have value in July, so long as I wasn't blocking out guys who needed a position to play.

If you really are going to be the best informed team in the majors about the available talent, then it certainly couldn't hurt to have a guy like matsui in hand to be an attractive target for contending teams in July, could it?
 

To me the big issue is what the Jays spend outside of the ML payroll this year.  If they go nuts on international signings and on the draft then I don't mind a $50-$60 million payroll.  If they go cheap on those then hope starts dropping fast.