6:54pm: The deferrals will drop the average annual value for luxury tax purposes to roughly $26MM, reports Mitch Bannon of The Athletic. That’d put the “true” value of the guarantee closer to $182MM.
6:25pm: The Blue Jays are going to sign Dylan Cease, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post. It will be a seven-year, $210MM deal for the Boras Corporation client. There are some deferrals, per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, though the details of the deferrals haven’t been publicly reported. Though the Jays gave Vladimir Guerrero Jr.