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In 2008, the Jays' payroll in Canadian dollars (valued at the start of the preceding offseason) was about $100MM. In 2009, the Jays' payroll in canadian dollars (valued at the start of the preceding offseason) was about $100MM.

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It's not JP Ricciardi's fault, or Paul Beeston's fault, or Rogers Media's fault that in the former case a Canadian dollar bought a US dollar and in the latter it only bought 80 US cents. But right now the Canadian dollar is worth about 92 US cents, and if that's where it ends up in November then it means that with zero additional investment from ownership, the Jays will have about $12MM USD to spend this offseason. Considering the one year deals some very good players signed last year, $12MM can buy some pretty significant improvements over this year's problem positions. In other words, keeping Halladay to win in 2010 isn't just posturing.  (This also means that the Jays have the hardest GM job in baseball, not because of the teams they have to compete against, but because you have to succeed at everything every other team does plus currency speculation .)

Poll
How many US Dollars will $100MM CAD buy this coming offseason?
< $80MM
0 votes
$80MM-$84.9MM
0 votes
$85MM-$89.9MM
2 votes
$90MM-$94.9MM
4 votes
$95MM-$99.9MM
2 votes
>$100MM
1 votes

9 votes | Poll has closed

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I can't opine

on monetary policy or exchange rates, but you bring up a very good point. The loonie has really risen against the greenback just since this past offseason, and that should (though who knows if it will) affect the team’s financial disposition going forward.

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on Jul 30, 2009 1:49 PM EDT reply actions  

For that matter, it dropped like a stone at the end of September last year

If they’d been able to buy their next season’s payroll a month and a half earlier, we might have seen more free agent action. But of course they’d have to have known how low it was going to go.

They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.

by Torgen on Jul 30, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Currency speculation is a dangerous business.

We had an entire course devoted to it in University and it was no picnic getting through it.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Jul 30, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

u can hedge it, if necessary

if Rogers were smart, they would load up on CDN dollars when it jumps up to parity and bank it for future days

by aagoodfella on Jul 30, 2009 2:33 PM EDT reply actions  

And if he keeps going up after parity?

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Jul 30, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

There are serious cash flow problems with that plan too

They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.

by Torgen on Jul 30, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

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