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Restructure and defer all money until 2040 and get them to take Santander ez

Where did Brett Bateman go? Duran sucks Could see them adding one good RP but not $22M in bullpen salary

2.2 WAR projection Crowd source was 3/$51M QO free agent so Boston loses pick Interesting roster for Boston. Contreras / Bauers / Anthony / Yoshida something's gotta give. Also Casas' corpse. Milwaukee was NEVER going to commit that money to a 1B/DH

Man alive I thought Phillips would get 1/$12m or something

The perfect offseason.

Yes, you can look past performance and upside and speed/power combo and think Jazz and Marte have similar ceilings and floors and Jazz is somehow comparable or a better target if you can get him without giving him $100M or whatever... and it may be true.... but it severely underrates performance risk, I think. Jazz is a near 30% K guy. He is perilously close to falling off the planet, offensively. His xwOBA cratered to .294 this past season and has been mediocre for most of his career. He's a speed and D guy with pop, but it's really an annoying offensive profile because it's guess hitting and he can't hit LHP. You also get some weird stuff happening on D with him, because of attention or declining arm strength or whatever. Marte projects for a way higher wRC+ for a reason. Just a rock solid profile with the stick. You don't get much range or speed on the bases, but Marte was/is still fine in those categories.

Ketel Marte to the Jays is just too perfect. Arizona seems done with him. They need to move on for social and PR reasons. They won't take peanuts for him but they won't be greedy holdouts either. Marte's talent and contract are in a bit of a sweet spot. He still projects as a 3.5 WAR+ player. He didn't get to that mark in 2026 but he underperformed his xwOBA and his Statcast page is still very solid. The tools are still there. His basic athleticism measurement did not crater in 2025 (range, arm, sprint speed, bat speed). His plate discipline skills are very good. No problematic changes I can see in his batted ball profile. NO SIGNS OF DECLINE. No reason to believe he is not capable of All Star seasons. His contract is very palatable. This is a sweet deal for a player with a 4 WAR projection. Guys like Suzuki and Arozarena are arguably not even 3 WAR projection dudes and they will probably get multiple years at a higher AAV. 2027 33 Arizona Diamondbacks $12,000,000 10.162 salary may increase by up to $5.5M based on 2026 PA and MVP voting$600k paid by Arizona Diamondbacks (pro-rated signing bonus) 2028 34 Arizona Diamondbacks $20,000,000 salary may increase by up to $5.5M based on 2027 PA and MVP voting 2029 35 Arizona Diamondbacks $22,000,000 salary may increase by up to $5.5M based on 2028 PA and MVP voting 2030 36 Arizona Diamondbacks $22,000,000 salary may increase by up to $5.5M based on 2029 PA and MVP voting 2031 37 Arizona Diamondbacks *$11,500,000 $11.5M Player Option Toronto needs right handed hitters and a second baseman. Marte is a switch hitter. Toronto has lefty bats to spare and Arizona needs one as their roster is too RH heavy. Toronto should be able to get him without giving up their very best prospects. They will have to give up something that will hurt to lose, but maybe it's just Ricky T or Daniel Guerra or whatever, packaged with Keys or Pinango.

I'm not sure Skubal is a Dodgers lock They might do the short term high AAV thing and if they get too cute he may turn elsewhere. He is a pitcher and had elbow issues so unless he's a complete idiot he should just take the most total money he is offered on a long term deal. Very possible Toronto just ends up as the team offering him the most term and money, just like they did for Tucker. Who knows. It wouldn't shock me for Toronto to actually get him.

MLB awards remain a joke Varland correctly wins AL reliever of the year, but multiple writers left him off their ballots. There is no justifiable reason for that other than conspiracy. Some writers trying to get someone else to win or exercising a personal grudge against the Blue Jays. Then Bryan Baker simultaneously wins the old AL Mariano Rivera reliever of the year award. This is voted on by the players or former players I think. They used to call it the delivery man of the year award and it was sponsored by UPS or some s***. Why does this award even exist anymore, since there is now a BBWAA reliever award? It shouldn't exist and they somehow got it wrong anyway because players are dumb.

The nice thing about Scherzer is he's willing to do the whole fake IL thing for as much of the season as the team needs Heck he might even sign for $1M this off-season

Barger's 2025 sprint speed was at least above average. A coach may be able to work with that in CF. Trick is just to do what the Rays and Brewers did this year which is to tell all your outfielders to just TAKE OFF on contact and then adjust your route on the fly. Start back and get a good jump. Honestly they should give Ernie an OF glove and get him reps out there because he is trending towards super util and not a starter.

I kind of like the idea of Dylan Crews Although the Nats would want way too much. He's like a 1 WAR player. Jake Marisnick bucket (more hit less defense?).

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/toronto-blue-jays-top-38-prospects/ "While the top overall prospect here is an infielder, pitching is clearly the strength of a relatively thin Toronto system." He hates us.

*Tarik Skubal milks the Blue Jays for swag and dinner

How none of their players won a gold glove, meat

Jays win the team gold glove award Hilarious to see when they got subbed on some of the player awards I don't really get it

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Surely Grichuk is no longer a CF option though. I expect the team to prioritize a CF capable guy who can be a soft side platoon for Bateman if his bat struggles. It's too bad Lukes is a lefty. It just always seems like he's an awkward fit until someone gets hurt.

Yeah like an Amed Rosario

https://www.dealinthecards.com/gm?team=tor Highly recommend dicking around on this, very fun

Yanks overcorrecting to the Trent Grisham scenario. I think that's it. Yes, it's nuts. I really hope he wants a one year pillow deal and Toronto gets him. Could realistically get a 3+ WAR season for like $22M or less?

Give me BOYD for 1/$9M as decent rotation depth. Toronto just needs one more SP on the list, I think. If they can truly get guys like Happ or Lowe for reasonable two year deals, they are no-brainers. Little risk there. It gets dicey when the years increase.

I think people are underestimating how significant it was to Toronto to have entire seasons from Barger and Santander wiped out, along with almost 50% of the season for Kirk. There is this impression that the offense just plain sucks and is hopeless and Shatkins put together a woeful slap-hitting team with no path forward, but I dunno. It could be better than people think, even without any significant additions, just assuming a somewhat healthy year from the incumbent hitters and some reasonable amount of regression to the mean for Guerrero.

Here is a relatively boring offseason.