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Some disappointing takeaways came from the GM meeting for the Toronto Blue Jays
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The MLB just wrapped up their annual GM meetings in San Antonio last week and the Toronto Blue Jays fans seem to be walking away with a few unfortunate takeaways.
While all the general managers met in San Antonio, reporters were all around gathering information on their teams and Ross Atkins seems to have given some discouraging updates to the fans.
The top takeaways from the annual GM meeting for the Toronto Blue Jays
Blue Jays fans were hoping that ownership would be willing to spend big this off-season since it seems like a necessity if they want to bring in top free agents but it looks like they do not plan on increasing the payroll for 2025.
According to Sportsnet's Shi Davidi, given Shapiro said he didn't see the payroll for next year «either growing or decreasing in a big way», then that might be in the $230~235M range based on an end of 2024 competitive balance tax (CBT) payroll of $235M (based on Cot's Baseball Contracts). That's only $20~25M above their current projected CBT payroll for 2025 of $211M. -Kime
While the Blue Jays have mentioned they plan on putting a focus on rebuilding their bullpen and adding some power to their lineup, insider Ben Nicholson-Smith believes the team will have a hard time attracting to end talent.
According to Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet, it appears unlikely the Blue Jays will be setting the market early: « while the likes of [relievers Tanner] Scott, [Jeff] Hoffman, Clay Holmes and Carlos Estévez surely haven't been crossed off [their list], the scenario where they land in Toronto is likely one where their markets develop more slowly than expected. -Kime
General manager Ross Atkins believes the team will be able to internally improve this off-season as he expects the players returning to have a better season than they did in 2024 even if his reasoning is unclear as to why he believes that.
So it may cause some indigestion when fans hear what Atkins said at the GM meetings this past week: «If you just looked at our projections and the performance of players and did the math on that, you could make the case that we have 10 wins within our roster right now to close (the gap), if we deploy them appropriately and put them in the best positions to be successful.»
All of these takeaways from the GM meetings are discouraging since it seems to be more of the same from Atkins despite some hope that he would switch things up this off-season and finally make some big moves to change the roster.
Source: Jays Journal
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