Bo would have been playing 3b if they re-sign him and not Okamoto, or maybe some 2b?
doesnt matter. Even Okamoto with his questioned defense when he signed has looked really good and has a much better dwar at 3b than Bo.in no universe would having Bo right now have improved the Jays in the W column.
So far a colossal disaster of a signing for the Mets
Nobody said to not sign Okamoto. The decision was never one or the other. To build is to retain + add more. The Jays have had a lot of players play all over the line-up because they have guys like Clement that can play pretty much anywhere, even off the bench or LF if you needed him to.
Clement has played 55 games at 2B, Sosa 28 games at 2B, Pinango has played in 26 games, Schneider 38 games, Straw 46 games, Jimenez 12 games at DH…
In the universe where Bo gets back to his usual self, yes, he would be playing better in TO and the Jays would be better. Same could be said with the addition of Tucker. Over the full 162 game season, the odds are that Bo + Tucker are better than their replacements. Their career stats prove it.
It hasn’t worked in New York but what he was doing in Toronto worked both for him and the team. It was expensive but Rogers has money, that shouldn’t have mattered. The Jays saving 80 million won’t win them the World Series. The team they had last year was minor improvements away from winning a World Series. Now, they look lucky if they make it as a Wild Card team. If your argument is that it’s still early in the season and the Jays can turn it around, so can Bo and Tucker so that point is worthless.