Personally, for me, I think adding Mad Max, Gimenez, Santander, and Hoffman gives us hope, this is certainly a big improvement for the roster of last season. The Yankees lost Soto too and the Orioles lost Burnes and Santander so the competition is less compared to the previous seasons even when we did make the playoffs.

We can also still sign Bregman or Alonso.....

Many people, including me, have been banging the drum for the Jays to bring in another lefty reliever all offseason.

Coulombe and Chafin are still available and would be great additions. But digging a little deeper, they may not be needed.

In 2024, left handed hitters had a .676 ops against right handed Nick Sandlin. In 2023, they hit .635. In 2022, they hit .634.

Looking at his savant page, it appears he throws his splitter much more to left handed hitters than righties, generating a 48% whiff percentage on the pitch last year. It was by far his most effective pitch.

He profiles similarly to Erik Swanson, who in 2023 was devastating against lefties despite being a RHP by utilizing a splitter. However, Sandlin has a weirder, lower arm slot providing a slightly different look to left handed hitters: https://www.mlb.com/guardians/video/nick-sandlin-in-play-out-s-to-mj-melendez-7tujjh

Sandlin struggled badly against right handed hitters last year but still had great reverse splits. I wonder, with his arm slot and splitter, if Ross already got us a high leverage arm to use against lefties in the Horowitz trade.

1. Bichette (SS)
2. Vlad (DH)
3. Santander (LF)
4. Alonso (1B)
5. Martinez (3B) or Clement 🤷🏼‍♂️
6. Springer (RF)
7. Kirk (C)
8. Gimenez (2B)
9. Varsho (CF)

SP1: Gausman SP2: Berrios SP3: Scherzer SP4: Bassitt SP5: Francis

This would play…

Sorry for the shitpost but I saw this picture and couldn’t help myself

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/01/blue-jays-to-sign-max-scherzer.html

Any insights or news on the Jays 2025 promotion schedule?

Trying to predict how a player will age is an imprecise science at best. Growing up in the early-mid 2000’s, it seemed like Albert Pujols was an incredibly durable hitting machine, destined to challenge Bonds and Aaron for all-time records, only to fall off pace after age 32. Meanwhile one of his contemporaries, Adrian Beltre, accrued more fWAR after he turned 30 than before. If you’d asked most baseball fans then which player would have aged more gracefully into their 30s, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone that would have bet against Pujols.

When the news broke that the Blue Jays had signed Anthony Santander, one of the things that stood out immediately to fans was the length of the contract: 5 years. If the decline hits early enough, that 5th year can be incredibly taxing on a team that’s trying to compete for a division title while also giving that player reps (also known as The George Springer Conundrum). When the value of the contract was revealed (including deferrals), most fans seemed ok with adding the extra year since the AAV wouldn’t be too much of a hit to the Blue Jays payroll. However, looking a bit deeper into the type of player that Santander is, I think there’s reason to believe that he’ll be productive throughout the entire contract....

Hi r/torontobluejays, the beginning of this post is an excerpt from the first post on my Substack about the Blue Jays, Open The Dome. I wrote some posts for r/torontobluejays last year about free agents that people really seemed to enjoy so I'm hoping to keep that up this year on Substack where the UI & subscriber features are much more writer-friendly. All of my content will be 100% free so if you're interested in the rest of this article, please feel free to follow the link below.

https://openthedome.substack.com/p/the-anthony-santander-contract-will?r=467804

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very very high on him and think he should get some reps in the majors. Haven’t heard a thing about him. Will he stay on the big club this year?