Toronto Blue Jays Trade Rumors: Who Could Be on the Block?
By Jason Evans
The Toronto Blue Jays at this point should think about being sellers. Who should they put on the trade block?
The Toronto Blue Jays should probably come face to face with a cold reality of the 2017 season. Coming into today, they are 10.5 games out of first place and are five games out of a Wild Card spot with eight teams to climb over. Another playoff run isn’t in the cards.
Yes, they have had a ton of injuries. Yes, Aaron Sanchez is coming back this weekend. However, this an older team with a farm system that has most of it’s top prospects in AA and below.
They have two starters who under the age of 30. One of them, Devon Travis, is probably lost for the season. Their older guys have either been injured, under-performed or both. They may be wise to get a little younger, get some prospects who may be ready to knock down the big league door and focus on making another run it what should be another challenging year in the AL East in 2018. It’s not a full rebuild, rather a reloading.
They have some pieces who can help a contender. I don’t think they need to do something as drastic as trading Josh Donaldson quite yet, but there are other parts that they can move in order to reload a bit for 2018.
So who are those pieces that they might be able to move before the trade deadline at the end of the month? Let’s take a look.