With just under two months until teams start reporting for Spring Training, the Blue Jays have the majority of their off-season checklist already taken care of, which is a rare and enviable spot for them to be in at this time of the year.
The biggest need going into the off-season was improving the starting rotation, and Ross Atkins and company have done just that by adding Tanner Roark, Chase Anderson, Shun Yamaguchi, and of course the big free agent prize, Hyun-Jin Ryu.
Getting Ryu to sign on the dotted line required the Blue Jays to hand out the second largest free agent contract in franchise history at four years and 80 million, just shy of Russell Martin‘s 82 million dollar pact, but it also comes with a higher AAV.