Free agency will open next week now that the World Series has come to an end, and with it Justin Smoak will be looking for a new team for the first time in a while.
The veteran first baseman has made his home in Toronto since the beginning of the 2015 campaign and during that time became one of the more popular players on the team, especially over the last couple of seasons. He’s one of the few remaining veterans from the playoff squads of 2015 and 2016, and with Devon Travis and Ryan Tepera on the sidelines for most of 2019, he was really the only face left to tie the two eras together.