Blue Jays weigh intriguing possibilities at GM Meetings

On Nov 7, 2024

SAN ANTONIO – Greatest guess for the Blue Jays this winter: they add a reasonably good hitter, a beginning pitcher who bumps Yariel Rodriguez to the bullpen and a few additional aid depth.

A backup catcher? Possibly not. A second bat? That’d be very best, however we’ll see. Will all of it work? No spoilers right here – test again in 2025. And both means, there’s likelihood the execution of this plan takes at least a pair months.

However after speaking to executives and brokers at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Nation Resort & Spa this week, that’s the image that’s rising. Connecting with free brokers has been a precedence for the Blue Jays since most high businesses have representatives right here in San Antonio, however the Toronto entrance workplace can be surveying the commerce market, figuring out their younger place gamers have worth league-wide.

“We’ll be patient in that category,” GM Ross Atkins stated Tuesday. “But we feel like we’re well positioned.”

To say they’re maintaining their choices open could be placing it mildly.

“Typical Blue Jays,” stated one agent. It wasn’t a praise or an insult – only a description of a workforce that tends to maintain a number of possibilities open for so long as attainable.

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Now ultimately, data gathering should give option to decisiveness, however the best way Atkins is speaking about being affected person, it’s clear the Blue Jays don’t thoughts ready. And there could be benefits to that method, as costs usually drop later within the winter.

Within the meantime, let’s contemplate a number of of the numerous, many gamers related to the Blue Jays.

There’s Brent Rooker, who hit 39 residence runs with a .927 OPS for the Athletics in 2024 and remains to be three years away from free company. On paper, he’s a super match for the Blue Jays – for any workforce, actually – however A’s GM David Forst stated Tuesday he doesn’t plan to maneuver Rooker and two others with data of the state of affairs stated Wednesday they don’t assume these feedback had been only a negotiating ploy.

If something, Oakland could look so as to add another bat this winter in an try to contend and that leaves the Blue Jays out of luck on a very gifted participant. In principle, the Blue Jays’ very best match might be a nook outfielder who bats left-handed, and Rooker’s a right-handed hitting DH, however his bat would have made all of it value it. He mashes – that’s the essential half.

If the Blue Jays don’t add a nook outfielder, the following most certainly place they’ll improve is second base, so it’s value noting that Ha-Seong Kim’s anticipated to be totally recovered from shoulder surgical procedure early in 2025, in accordance with agent Scott Boras. As anticipated, the Blue Jays have some curiosity in Kim and Gleyber Torres as they survey infield choices.

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But it surely’s the beginning pitching market the place the Blue Jays are stated to be most aggressive. The considering there may be easy sufficient: including an impression arm would enhance their rotation and deepen their bullpen with the addition of Rodriguez with out blocking different MLB-ready contributors.

And whereas there’s danger in studying an excessive amount of into early low season conversations, it’s at least value noting that the Blue Jays are asking about Max Fried, the 30-year-old left-hander who posted a 3.25 ERA with Atlanta this yr en path to a 3.5-WAR season.

Fried’s one of many low season’s high free brokers with a projected six-year, $156 million contract by MLB Commerce Rumors, and an expenditure of that scale may require particular approval from possession at Rogers Communications, Inc., which additionally owns Sportsnet. However he’s not the one top-ranked starter in whom the Blue Jays are displaying curiosity – due diligence at least, or maybe extra.

As one particular person at the GM Meetings stated: “In capitalism, anything is possible.”

For the Blue Jays, that’s actually true. In spite of everything, that is the entrance workplace that signed Robbie Ray and Marcus Semien in a single impressed low season 4 years in the past. An analogous displaying this winter would restore their standing as contenders for 2025.

With free company now underway, the possibilities are once more vast open for the Blue Jays. Possibly they pull off that dream commerce, signal a marquee free agent or two and hit massive on a minor-league signing.

“The no-look behind the back pass,” as one government put it.

However banking on that end result isn’t real looking, both. In spite of everything, this entrance workplace can be the group that’s led the Blue Jays to the place they’re now – making an attempt to enhance a deeply flawed roster to allow them to climb out of final place of their division. There aren’t any ensures of a return to relevance, but doing higher than final yr is a should.

For now, the perfect guess is that this: hitter, starter and bullpen depth – and possibly some extra ready first. How effectively all of it works? That’s a query for subsequent summer time.

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