The Toronto Blue Jays are for real this year. The team won’t play the 2022 season just to make the playoffs, but to win the World Series.
After seeing the Blue Jays dominate in 2015 and 2016, Ross Atkins rebuilt at breakneck speed and once again found his team among the favorites to win the World Series.
Toronto developed well (Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, Alek Manoah and more), but also spent like crazy.
In fact, since the 2019 offseason, the Jays have spent a whopping $507 million on five players, including four pitchers.
Hyun-Jin Ryu ($80M), George Springer ($150M), José Berrios ($131M), Kevin Gausman ($110M) and Yusei Kikuchi ($36M) have come to town. The Jays needed reinforcements on the mound; Atkins took care of the problem.
Hyun-Jin Ryu (4/$80M)
George Springer ($6/$150M)
Jose Berrios (7/$131M)
Kevin Gausman ($5/$110M)
Yusei Kikuchi (3/$36M)Tea #BlueJays have committed $507 million to five players in the last three off seasons. This front office is committed to bringing a World Series to Toronto. pic.twitter.com/9gfIdJCSkX
— Jason (Hanshin) Lee (@Jasons_JaysHub) March 12, 2022
Toronto now has one of the best rotations in major league baseball.
We are definitely no longer at the time when Scott Boras criticized the Canadian team for not spending enough.
We’ve come a long way from the “Blue Flu”, as Kikuchi is the latest Scott Boras client to join the #BlueJays. Here’s Boras on Kikuchi in November:
“How many teams wouldn’t want an All-Star pitcher on their staff? Teams are coming to us and letting us know that he is a priority.”
—Mitch Bannon (@MitchBannon) March 12, 2022
By the way, click HERE if you want to see the Jays’ payroll for the 2022 season. Besides Randal Grichuk, the five players named in the text are the highest earners at the club.
Go take a look at the Rays in comparison for fun.
This payroll is not counting the contracts of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette and Teoscar Hernandez, which will have to be extended (by a lot) in the coming years…
Rogers makes a lot of money. Over the past three winters, he’s proven that by spending a lot. However, it should be noted that he left many millions of dollars on the table because of COVID-19.
The Jays have played in the United States for almost a year and a half. Plus, they’ve done major renovations to the team’s spring facilities, major modifications to Sahlen Field (Buffalo) and TD Ball Park (Dunedin) and they even recently changed the jumbotron at the Rogers Center. In short, large expenditures on autonomous players as well as on architecture have been made in recent years.
The Blue Jays are ready to win right now…and they’ve gone to great lengths to get there.
- Brad Hand in Philadelphia.
Left-handed reliever Brad Hand and the Philadelphia Phillies are in agreement on a one-year, $6 million contract, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN.
—Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) March 14, 2022
- If they want to play in Toronto, they won’t have a choice.
Bloom said Red Sox “have and will continue to be staunch advocates of vaccinations” and will do everything they can to make sure players are on the field.
—Jason Mastrodonato (@JMastrodonato) March 14, 2022
- Kevin Gausman in his new colors.
First time for Kevin Gausman in his #BlueJays uniform. David Phelps and Adam Cimber throwing along side. pic.twitter.com/oqj4eX3IYw
— Ben Wagner (@benwag247) March 14, 2022
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— Pierre-Olivier Poulin (@P_OPoulin) March 14, 2022
