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Blue Jays outfield targets: The Wild Card, Eric Thames

The Toronto Blue Jays have every reason to enter free agency looking through a wide lens. With multiple openings in their outfield and bullpen, not all solutions for the Blue Jays will be simple.

General manager Ross Atkins acknowledged this recently, suggesting that the team could explore players not currently playing domestically among their many strategies.

One name that continues to hold the attention of Blue Jays fans — largely due to the nostalgia for an old friend and some eye-popping numbers overseas — is the 29-year-old Eric Thames.

After being drafted by the Blue Jays in 2008, Thames debuted with Toronto in 2011 and hit 12 home runs in 95 games.