Their newish management have been coolly dispassionate about the free agency of two of the more popular players in franchise history, which is not that surprising.
But so has the rest of baseball, which is.
With baseball’s winter meetings wrapping up, neither Edwin Encarnacion nor Jose Bautista have signed a contract and, though the market for both could bounce back as teams who missed on other targets come around to the long-time Blue Jays, the presumed narrative around the sluggers was way off. It’s not that the Blue Jays had to bow out of a high-priced bidding war for them, it’s that the bidding war never happened.