Jayson Stark recently penned a great article about how the Blue Jays, by not signing Gil Meche and Ted Lilly and instead went with lower end starters like Tomo Okha and John Thomson, will saved more then $90 million over the life of the various players contract. And in the end, the production from Okha and Thomson probably won’t be that much worse then what Meche and Lilly do on the field. Good stuff and I couldn’t agree more. The Jays spent a ton of money to keep Vernon Wells and that was well spent. If they can get a full season from A.J. Burnett and then some decent production from guys like Okha and Thomson then the Jays will be in good shape in 2007.
