Mitchell Bannon

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Maybe like I saw Mitch Bannon's report that they're still open to bringing him back and the dialogue will remain and all that is going to be the same.

And that's great.

But when I look at the outfield, why it's so fascinating is that it's like you also still have a lot of guys there.

Talking about how Springer's leaving and talking about the outfield woes.

You've had, in the past, Mitch Bannon come out and discuss how this just makes all the sense in the world for the Toronto Blue Jays.

It feels like every single analyst right now that is associated with MLB is associating the Toronto Blue Jays and Seiya Suzuki.

Makes sense to me, right? You got a guy who is at the top of the class and the Blue Jays in the past have proven that they are willing to pay top of the class money.

as yesterday suzuki officially became a free agent and the jays didn't just stay in the conversation they keep showing up as the primary suitor for the star we're going to break down these new reports and discuss how following those it's more real than it ever has been as well as a move the jays made about an hour ago which has some interesting implications Let's start back on September 28th.

Mitch Bannon of The Athletic reported that the Blue Jays are expected to pursue Seiya Suzuki when he hits free agency.

An MLB trade rumor was added that Suzuki should be a very attractive free agent and that adding Suzuki specifically to the Blue Jays would be a clear upgrade.

Now that same day, Ben Nicholson-Smith reported at Sportsnet that the Jays have scouted Japanese stars Teruaki Sato and Kaima Taro, a pitcher, a third baseman, and now an outfielder.

This isn't new.

At the deadline, Mitch Bannon reported the Blue Jays tried to add an impact middle infielder, but they didn't get that deal done.

And instead, the Jays sold, trading Gosman, trading Dalton Varshow, and those trades ended up pretty beneficial to the Blue Jays.

Think about the timeline.

And Seiya can actually play right field.

right where it's yet to be seen if teruaki sato sorry is going to be a decent below average or above average fielder we know say a suzuki is a gold glove finalist right now and a former gold club winner mitch bannon of the athletic reported back in september the jays are expected to pursue suzuki when he hits free agency and obviously new reports dropped over the past couple weeks as well keegan mathis talked about it it is clear they are going to pursue suzuki very very heavily One of the concerns with Suzuki is his age.

He turned 32 in August, so a four-year deal takes him through his age 36 season.

And if you've been following this channel for a while, you know we've been talking about it.

So that's where it becomes interesting.

Now, how real is the Jays interest? Here's what's been reported.

Mitch Bannon of the Athletics of the Toronto will check in on Sato.

And Ben Nichols, the Smith of Sportsnet, also reported that the Jays have been scouting him and said they have early interest.

This was kind of talking about his season as a whole and where we think it could go, you know, looking at the ceilings and the floors.

So they basically took other, and this was Mitch Bannon, by the way, so shout out to him.

Shout out to Mitch.

They took other individuals who signed similar-esque, obviously nothing 500 million, but similar-esque contracts around the similar ages, looked at the years before, looked at the year that the contract was signed, and then looked at the years after.

Paul Goldschmidt.

probable Hall of Famer, very, very good, and ultimately what you want to see from Vladdy.

And then Bryce Harper was the example that Mitch Bannon kind of really listed out as being, well, maybe this could be the trajectory of Vladdy's career.

And when you look back at Bryce, and there are a lot of comparisons that I guess you can make with

CBS Sports, back in September, ranked Scooble the number one free agent of the winter and named the Dodgers and the Blue Jays as the earliest possible landing spots.

Mitch Bannon of The Athletic also said that they'll be involved, they'll be connected, but he doesn't know if he actually ends up in a Jays uniform.

But once again, the interest is there per four or five insiders.

So that's the full picture.