Kazuma Okamoto and the Toronto Blue Jays are in agreement

[mphenhef]

On 1/5/2026 at 11:40 AM, Brownie19 said:

If Straw was a FA right now, nobody would give him $7.4M.  You can look at $/WAR all you want, but he's overpaid.

Luckily - payroll no longer seems to be a concerns, so we can live with it.  I'd be happily surprised if he can replicate his 2025 success.  

The CF free agents on the market right now are:

Bader

Bellinger - debatable he is a CF

Garrett Hampson

Chas McCormick

 

Pretty slim pickings after Bader so in that hypothetical, Straw might command something.

Lane Thomas got 5.5 million coming off two negative bwar seasons and a negative fWar season.