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Blue Jays Among Frontrunners To Sign Outfielder Anthony Santander

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MLB Trade Rumors has reported that the Blue Jays are considered amongst "frontrunners" to sign outfielder Anthony Santander.

Yes, yes. I know.

The Jays have been in on several of the top free agents this winter but have yet to sign a prominent name, of which there are few remaining. Santander had a fantastic 2024 season, posting a 131 OPS+ for the Orioles. Earlier in the offseason, it was reported that Santander, who will play his age-30 season in 2025, was looking for a five-year contract. Fellow outfielder Teoscar Hernandez was recently re-signed by the Dodgers on a three-year contract, a far cry from the five years Santander is pursuing.

Several teams are interested in Santander, including the Yankees and Tigers.


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6 hours ago, Spanky99 said:

Yes please, should be able to get him in the 4/80 range. 🙏

4/80 would be great. I think he wants 100. 

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30 minutes ago, Omar said:

I think this time the Jays will bag the elephant and get Santander (desperate times, desperate measures etc.)

  Get ready to jump back on the Atkins train in 2025.  

It's certainly going to be increasing difficult for Atkins to remain discipline and stick to their evaluations.  There are some things I like about Tony (low K's, power, switch hitter), but I'm not sure he's the guy you want to go on tilt and sign out of desperation.

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Payroll is sunk already, this team is on its absolute last tank and currently at best a fringe wild card team.  Might as well pay the man and take one last shot because if they cannot extend Vladdy this is going to turn into a rebuild.  

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I want no part of Santander unless it’s a very short term deal (3 years or less, which it won’t be) but at this point the Jays don’t have much choice if they want to upgrade the 2025 roster, at least from a power standpoint. If they miss on Santander then there really isn’t much left. I guess the idea of adding Austin Hays and JD Martinez would work if the goal is to sell at the deadline (which they might do regardless of what happens this winter) but if they actually want to legitimately try to put a playoff contender out there then Santander is the best FA option they have. Or at least the safest one.

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34 minutes ago, glory said:

I want no part of Santander unless it’s a very short term deal (3 years or less, which it won’t be) but at this point the Jays don’t have much choice if they want to upgrade the 2025 roster, at least from a power standpoint. If they miss on Santander then there really isn’t much left. I guess the idea of adding Austin Hays and JD Martinez would work if the goal is to sell at the deadline (which they might do regardless of what happens this winter) but if they actually want to legitimately try to put a playoff contender out there then Santander is the best FA option they have. Or at least the safest one.

Scherzer, Sewald, Kimbrel, Rizzo, JDM. Bring in all the old farts. Geezer revenge season. 

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44 minutes ago, Laika said:

Scherzer, Sewald, Kimbrel, Rizzo, JDM. Bring in all the old farts. Geezer revenge season. 

Don't forget Rich Hill. 

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1 hour ago, glory said:

I want no part of Santander unless it’s a very short term deal (3 years or less, which it won’t be) but at this point the Jays don’t have much choice if they want to upgrade the 2025 roster, at least from a power standpoint. If they miss on Santander then there really isn’t much left. I guess the idea of adding Austin Hays and JD Martinez would work if the goal is to sell at the deadline (which they might do regardless of what happens this winter) but if they actually want to legitimately try to put a playoff contender out there then Santander is the best FA option they have. Or at least the safest one.

I'm at the point where I don't care if it's 3 years or 4 or even 5 for Santander. The team is going to lose a second round pick if they sign him up which is the only real negative I can see. The team is rapidly approaching the point where a rebuild is potentially going to need to happen barring unexpected breakouts in the minors, and an extra year or two for Santander's services isn't going to a huge deal on a team that's likely going to be awful anyway.

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2 hours ago, max silver said:

I'm at the point where I don't care if it's 3 years or 4 or even 5 for Santander. The team is going to lose a second round pick if they sign him up which is the only real negative I can see. The team is rapidly approaching the point where a rebuild is potentially going to need to happen barring unexpected breakouts in the minors, and an extra year or two for Santander's services isn't going to a huge deal on a team that's likely going to be awful anyway.

Yeah I mean at this point the front office only cares about 2025 wins so having a $20M AAV vet DH after 2025 when they are likely rebuilding isn't going to do much harm. The question is whether Santander's 2025 is worth not only the draft pick but the possible bad money towards the end? I'm not sure his 2025 season is going to move the needle that much unless there are more moves in addition to that. Someone like Bregman makes more sense if they only want 2025 wins and are willing to eat any potential dead money afterwards (they probably won't be around to deal with it anyway, at least Atkins won't), but a 6-7 year deal for a 31 year old who already showed signs of decline before pen hit paper doesn't seem like a smart idea regardless of team direction. At least Santander you might get for 4 years from ages 30-33, which is more reasonable than ages 31-36 or 31-37. 

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