If you ask someone like Super-Agent, Scott Boras, teams like the Blue Jays are exactly what’s wrong with the free agency market this offseason. In fact, he’s gone on record in the past as accusing the Blue Jays of being cheap relative to their spending power, and in some ways he makes a valid point. They are the only team in Canada after all, and that’s a pretty unique, and profitable position to be in.
Still, when it comes to this year’s free agency market I would stop short of blaming the Blue Jays for being the source of the hot stove moving at a snail’s pace.