It’s been an interesting offseason for the Blue Jays, in that it hasn’t played out likely many (myself included) expected it would.
When it began, I predicted the Jays would bring back Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Cecil, and let the rest of their free agents walk, including Jose Bautista. I may have been correct on Michael Saunders and possibly on Dioner Navarro, but I clearly didn’t envision things playing out the way they did. And that’s not necessarily all bad.
The Blue Jays have employed a largely patient strategy to their offseason, and we’ve seen it start to pay off for the front office more recently.