The Toronto Blue Jays squandered a golden opportunity to score some brownie points with their young ace hurler Aaron Sanchez and his hard-nosed agent Scott Boras for future negotiations.
Rather than offering Sanchez a sizeable raise and extending an olive branch for future negotiations the Blue Jays front office signed Sanchez to the league minimum of $535,000 doing presumably more harm than good.
I understand baseball is a business and you don’t throw around hundreds of thousands of dollars just for the sake of doing it. However, this is the same pitcher that left money on the table and volunteered to take a minor league assignment last season to benefit the team.