The winter was cold for the Blue Jays, very cold. Every time it seemed like there was a warm front on the horizon it disappeared, and the freeze returned.
Then there was the pursuit of ace pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who turned out to be the highest-paid pitcher ever. He isn’t Ohtani, but he is a three-time Sawamura Award winner, which is Japanese pro baseball's version of the Cy Young Award. Yoshinobu rejected the Blue Jays as well, also signing with the Dodgers. More cold winds blew in Toronto.
Toronto lost out on the big-name international free agent pitchers in Yamamoto and Shota Imanaga, but did sign Yariel Rodriguez. A Cuban-born pitcher who had been playing in Japan, Rodriguez didn’t pitch in 2023, so he was free from his contract.
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