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Toronto Blue Jays: Boyd Is The Word?

The Blue Jays are looking to upgrade their starting rotation for 2020, ideally with a combination of solid, innings-eating veterans and with at least one solid top-of-rotation starter. Ideally that pitcher should provide substantial quality innings, and be under team control long enough to bridge to the “third wave” of young pitchers in the Jays’ minor league system.

There are at least four free agent pitchers who could fit this need: Gerrit Cole, Steven Strasberg, Zack Wheeler and Hyun-Jin Ryu. But there will be substantial competition for their services, and it is far from guaranteed that they would come to a rebuilding Toronto team, even if the Jays were to overpay.