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Blue Jays, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Fail to Reach Extension
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2/19/2025
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The hot stove around the winter in MLB coming to a close, especially if you insert a deadline of
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Monday evening to negotiate a long-term contract extension with your organization, which is what
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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. did with the Toronto Blue Jays. And by various indications, they weren't
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really all that close, as Vladimir Jr. will enter the final year of his contract in 2025.
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Vladimir Jr. saying that the Blue Jays didn't really get all that close. GM Ross Atkins for
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Toronto saying, we made a lot of aggressive offers. Regardless, the deadline is through.
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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. does not want to negotiate a new deal during this season, even though the
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season is still a little bit more than a month away. Donnie, what do you make of VladiWatch up
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in the six? Yeah, well, he's seeing how much some of these other guys are getting paid. And let's
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just say a Juan Soto basically feels like he's going for a billion dollars in show time. He's
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like, well, I at least should be half as paid as those guys here and maybe rightfully so. But also,
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that means that you get to free agency where everybody can bid on you. You have to understand
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this. A team is going to say, yes, we love you. You know, we will take care of you. You've been
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with us. Homegrown talent. Let's just see if we can work something out. But then the agent's going
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to say, well, I think he's worth this amount. You're not worth that amount unless you have
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competition who's actually going to pay you, which means once you get the free agency,
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all it takes is three teams to get into a bidding war and it starts at two hundred fifty million
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and ends at four hundred million dollars. But the Toronto Blue Jays feel right now they're
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probably bidding against themselves. And why would they give you overall true market value
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when you're not a free agent just yet? Now, you can spin the wheel and do one of those things.
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Hey, you know, Vladi, you go out there, find that contract, make sure your agent gets back to us.
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We'd love to sign you. We just want to make sure that deal is valid. But it is also interesting.
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We always have these imposed deadlines because you do need deadlines, even if they are meaningless
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at this point, because up until the season actually starts, you want to set it just to
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see where the team is at. Are they willing to negotiate, move forward or no? So you say no.
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At this point, there's still going to be talks. You're not going to break down and not go ahead,
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because I joked the start of the show to say for Vladi Jr., if they offer him exactly what he wants
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today and he goes, oh, no, no, no, no. That deadline was last night. I'm not going to
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negotiate. That's not going to happen at this point. You would like to see something work out.
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But the jokes play themselves where it's like, you know what? He's going to be a Dodger next year.
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Let's just accept it.
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