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Alex Anthopoulos Lays Out His Vision

Found November 07, 2009 on Batter's Box:
PLAYERS: Roy Halladay,  Aaron Hill,  Adam Lind
TEAMS: Toronto Blue Jays

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Alex Anthopoulos has completed his due diligence with the players, coaches, other GM and agents and he held a conference call today to answer questions about his plans.  The conference call can be heard here.  The call is 35 minutes long. Here are my notes from the call:No specific payroll, it will be what it needs to be.  There are no contraints but the club needs a model for success and then the fans will come out.  Club drew 4 million fans year ago and could do it again.  When the team starts winning the fans will come out.Club needs a sustained model for success.  Club needs to win based on strong player development and strong scouting.Right now we have some of the pieces in the system but not all of the pieces.  There has been an 88 win team and an 87 win Blue Jay team since the world series wins.  In the AL East you need 95 wins to make the playoffs.We need to be a great team to get to the 95 win mark.Need to continue to add good young c...
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