With Smoak's cheap options I thought moving him last year made a lot of sense as well. But the First Base market is never in high demand anymore. So even with his All-Star first half last year. Teams wouldn't buy high on him.
The Blue Jays definitely missed the boat on Donaldson though. I thought a lot of things would have to break right this year for this team to be competitive. But even on paper going into the year we were expected to be in the Wild Card mix. Its not even July and we are well out of any kind of playoff race.