The Blue Jays have made a lot of difficult decisions in the last couple of seasons, mostly when it comes to moving on from beloved franchise veterans. Edwin Encarnacion was out after 2016, Jose Bautista after 2017, and others like Russell Martin and Troy Tulowitzki were moved during the last offseason.
With the exception of Encarnacion, many of the players that helped lead them to the playoffs in 2015 and 2016 are no longer anywhere near as productive as they were back then, which was part of why the Blue Jays’ front office didn’t want to keep them around.