Jon Heyman of Fan Rag Sports authored an article yesterday touching on the Indians offseason offer to free agent Jose Bautista. Blue Jays nation would have imploded leading to a revolt against Mark Shapiro and company had the Indians concluded the offseason with both Edwin Encarnacion and Bautista in tow.
The Indians made a nice play for Jose Bautista, offering around the same guarantee he got from Toronto ($18.5 million). There was a possibility they might have made it a multi-year deal, but Bautista wanted to go back to Toronto so he cut off talks.