Blue Jays Discussion: 2024-25 Off-season: The free agent watch begins (and sometimes old baseball radio broadcasts)

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

Now the report is Toronto will come in with the highest bid

Jon Morosi the same guy who said Ohtani was on his way to Toronto thinks Soto signing will be in the next 10 days...

 

[habamillions]

These guys are just guessing. Its a good guess to say he signs within 10 days thats when the winter meetings are

 

[Puckstuff]

Highest bid + play with Vlad is a great offer.

I can’t say if it’s enough or not but more money in Toronto to play with Vlad is a very attractive offer at the very least.

 

[phillipmike]

 

[Lightsol]

I love how they constantly act like the Blue Jays have no history with Dominican players... Like they didn't just spend years with their two best hitters both being Dominicans, and their current best hitter ALSO being a Dominican...

 

[phillipmike]

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Jays fans to Shapiro and Atkins if these fabricated stories actually turn out to be true:

 

[Canada4Gold]

Guys we signed Soto and are playing him at Shortstop. I guess we're trading Bo then

 

[tmlfan98]

Ranking Roki Sasaki's 7 Most Likely MLB Landing Spots

Ben Badler presents his breakdown of how MLB teams might go about signing Japanese pitching star Roki Sasaki.

www.baseballamerica.com

1. LA Dodgers
2. San Diego Padres
3. Texas Rangers
4. New York Mets
5. New York Yankees
6. Baltimore Orioles
7. Boston Red Sox

 

[hockeywiz542]

What I’m hearing in MLB free agency about potential Juan Soto dominoes and more - The Athletic

The outfield market

Anthony Santander and Teoscar Hernández, ranked ninth and 11th on The Athletic’s Top 40 Free Agent Big Board, currently are on hold while the Soto negotiations continue.

The five known Soto bidders are the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers. Like Soto, both Santander and Hernández rejected qualifying offers, so any team that signs them will be subject to draft-pick compensation. But most if not all of the Soto losers figure to pursue them. And other teams also will be in the mix.


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Get the idea?

The Soto Dominoes are going to fall. It’s just a matter of time.

 

[Lightsol]

What I’m hearing in MLB free agency about potential Juan Soto dominoes and more - The Athletic

Oh, yeah, then you see stuff like this where it's presumed that the Jays are a small market team and there's no way they'd carry multiple expensive players on their roster like the big punchers do...

 

[jetsforever]

Would be super nice if Soto only cares about money and we give him the biggest offer

 

[GreytWun]

We seriously need to start doing something with our bullpen. It lost us a ton of games last year and we have gotten much worse.

 

[Advanced stats]

Would be a dream if Soto said he would sign if we committed to signing vladdy and building a legitimate bullpen.

 

[Ale Brew]

We seriously need to start doing something with our bullpen. It lost us a ton of games last year and we have gotten much worse.

I don’t believe a single reliever of relevance has signed with ANYONE yet so probably not time to panic. That said, you’re right, our pen needs at minimum two impact arms added plus at least one lefty.

 

[Canada4Gold]

I expect them to add 3 or 4 arms. Green, Swanson, Yariel(when they add a starter) are locks. Burr and Little are likely but both have options. I can see them doing 2 or 3 FA/trades, then grabbing a guy in the rule 5 and have him compete with Burr, Little, Danner and Nance for the other 2 or 3 spots.

 

[Blitzkrug]

640 for Soto is batshit crazy but f*** it, if the opportunity is there, take it. Ask questions later.

I still think he ends up in Boston but it definitely sounds like there's at least a punchers chance he ends up with the Jays

 

[Dr.Funk]

The Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, and Toronto Blue Jays are believed to have made offers north of $600 million to Soto, while the New York Yankees are in the $550-million range, a source told Randy Miller of NJ Advance Media.

Report: Red Sox, Mets, Jays believed to have offered Soto upward of $600M

The bidding war for Juan Soto in free agency is ramping up.The Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, and Toronto Blue Jays are believed to have made offers north of $600 million to Soto, while the New York Yankees are in the $550-million range, a source told Randy Miller of NJ Advance Media.The...

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[Tony Romo]

Yankees must really think he wants to be a yankee!

 

[Amadeus]

They will retain him

 

[tmlfan98]

 

[phillipmike]

Toronto Blue Jays 2025 Top MLB Prospects

Presenting Baseball America's 2025 ranking of the top prospects in the Toronto Blue Jays system, headlined by lefthander Ricky Tiedemann.

www.baseballamerica.com

1. Ricky Tiedemann LHP
2. Trey Yesavage RHP
3. Arjun Nimmala SS
4. Orelvis Martinez 2B
5. Jake Bloss RHP
6. Josh Kasevich SS
7. Landen Maroudis RHP
8. Alan Roden OF
9. Kendrys Rojas LHP
10. Fernando Perez RHP

 

[Suntouchable13]

Why can't Toronto be more of a destination as a city? Just because you have to cross the border all the time you have to overpay free agents? As a city, it's very much on par with Chicago, Boston, NYC.

 

[Advanced stats]

Why can't Toronto be more of a destination as a city? Just because you have to cross the border all the time you have to overpay free agents? As a city, it's very much on par with Chicago, Boston, NYC.

1. People think Canada=cold
2. Taxes are high
3. Old stadium
4. There is more travel time involved with playing out of Toronto.

 

[trellaine201]

Why can't Toronto be more of a destination as a city? Just because you have to cross the border all the time you have to overpay free agents? As a city, it's very much on par with Chicago, Boston, NYC.

I would pick any canadian city over anywhere in the USA, what a mess down there. No thanks.