It’s safe to say that the trend of signing 30 plus year-old players to long-term contracts may be coming to an end in baseball. Yet, many of these types of contracts remain laid over from past general managers botched decisions.
The Blue Jays are positioned well to eat some salary if the right prospects were to be included in a trade, so it could be plausible that an expensive aging veteran could find his way onto the Blue Jays roster come this trade season.
Currently, the Blue Jays payroll of $115 million sits well below the $164 million spent last season, so management could afford to add a few bad contracts if they wanted to.