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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

Hill is the kind of prospect i want them to target. High bust potential but front-line starter upside.

Good deadline. The MLB team isn’t really any worse this year and improved in the future.
 
Solid all in all scenario with Hoffman.

>Paid him pretty good money to potentially be a closer.
>Used him for a good portion of last season in the role. Recognized he’s not the guy.
>Upgraded on him in the bullpen.
>Traded him for high upside prospect.

Add in the fact they’ll probably redirect those funds back into a different relief arm in the winter and it’s a really good turnaround.
 
I guess Hoff got the best return in part due to the year left on his contract. Still feels like Cubs robbed us for Gaus, who I’d want more than Hoff.
 
The Blue Jays considered dealing the likes of Bieber, Springer and others but ultimately decided that they were more valuable than whatever trade return they would have brought back.
Asked about Springer, Atkins said: “We wanted him here.”
Both are free agents after the season, and Bieber’s a potential fit in Toronto while it’s unclear what Springer’s plans are after 2026 and whether he intends to continue playing.
The same applies to Gausman, who’s well within his rights to talk with the Blue Jays again after the season if he decides he wants to keep playing in 2027. It wouldn’t be the first time a veteran pitcher has returned to a team that traded him, as Merrill Kelly of the Diamondbacks can attest.


I don’t get it then. Why trade Gaus? Want Springer here, but not him?
 
either nobody offered anything good for Springer, or he exercised his 10 and 5 rights and asked not to be traded.

jays are being diplomatic as there's no benefit to explaining which one happened.
 
Feel like it’d have been better if they said that there were deals out there for him but he chose to stay and they were happy to keep him. Makes him look good. The way they said it implies they didn’t want Gaus.
 
Bieber can still be given a qualifying offer, so if he has a good last few months, you can give him that and either bring him back for that price, or get a pick for him. I'm guessing he just hadn't shown quite enough in his time back from injury that the team got any real offers for him.

Springer, given the 10/5 rights, probably only had a couple teams he would have been willing to go do, and so I'm guessing the team just got nothing offered back for him, probably not even salary relief.

The return on Gausman seems light, still. Both guys seem to have top end potential as utility players, not the sort of guys I tend to like to deal for. If Gausman was having a terrible season or something, then sure. But he's been a decent, if a little unlucky, starter this year. At least it feels like you should get back a few more guys like they got in the Hoffman deal, maybe longshots but with higher upside.

The big question still to me is whether it was worth moving one of your top prospects at the deadline for Soriano. Sure, it sets you up better for the next few years, but it feels weird to pay deadline pricing. Could you have waited until the off-season and got a similar deal?
 
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