Blue Jays interim general manager Tony LaCava all but confirmed on Thursday that the club is in talks to potentially sign right-handed starter Marco Estrada to a multi-year deal ahead of Friday’s qualifying offer deadline. The Jays extended Estrada, who had a career season in 2015, a one-year, $15.8 million qualifying offer. He has until Friday to make a decision on that. The Jays get a compensatory draft pick if he doesn’t accept.
“I don’t want to comment on what’s going on between us and any free agents but obviously you guys know we want him back, that’s why we did the QO,” LaCava said on Thursday morning prior to the final GM meetings at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.