{"id":285397,"date":"2025-11-15T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285397\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:41:07","slug":"blue-jays-showing-interest-in-raisel-iglesias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285397\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Showing Interest In Raisel Iglesias"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays are among the teams with interest in free agent closer\u00a0Raisel Iglesias<\/a>, reports Francys Romero<\/a>. That\u2019s a logical fit with Toronto on the hunt for a late-game arm<\/a>. They\u2019ve also been linked to Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> at the top of the relief market.<\/p>\n

Iglesias remains one of the better relievers in MLB as he enters his age-36 season. The Cuban-born righty is coming off a 3.21 earned run average in 67 1\/3 innings for the Braves. Iglesias went 29-34 in save chances, narrowly missing what would have been his sixth career 30-save campaign. Iglesias punched out an above-average 27.4% of opponents while limiting walks to a 6% clip. He got swinging strikes nearly 15% of the time while still getting opponents to frequently chase outside the strike zone.<\/p>\n

In aggregate, this year was Iglesias\u2019 worst since at least 2019. That\u2019s mostly attributable to an early-season home run spike. He gave up seven longballs before the end of May and carried a near-6.00 ERA into June. Once he got the home runs in check, Iglesias looked like his usually excellent self. He turned in a 1.96 ERA with a 29.3% strikeout percentage over the final four months. Opponents hit .163\/.224\/.219 with one homer in their last 174 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Jays general manager Ross Atkins has already said they\u2019re not committed to keeping\u00a0Jeff Hoffman<\/a> in the ninth inning. Signing a closer would allow manager John Schneider to use Hoffman as a multi-inning leverage arm earlier in games. Hoffman allowed the second-most home runs (15) among MLB relievers this year. The longball is the biggest concern with Iglesias as well but not to the same extent.<\/p>\n

Iglesias\u2019 age is going to cap him at a maximum of two years. He should command an eight-figure annual salary. The Braves didn\u2019t find much trade interest with Iglesias making $16MM this past summer. He elevated his stock by allowing just one run in 23 2\/3 frames after the deadline, so it\u2019s not out of the question that he commands something similar to this year\u2019s salary on the open market. That\u2019d especially be true if he takes a one-year guarantee, though MLBTR predicted<\/a> he\u2019d command a two-year contract at $13MM annually.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers are the only other team that has been publicly connected to Iglesias this offseason. The Braves don\u2019t have an obvious closing replacement and will probably stay in touch, but president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos said this week that they\u2019re focused on shortstop and the rotation<\/a> in the short term. If Iglesias receives strong two-year offers this month, he could sign elsewhere before the Braves are ready to pivot to the bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays are among the teams with interest in free agent closer\u00a0Raisel Iglesias, reports Francys Romero. That\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,10620,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-285397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-raisel-iglesias","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}