{"id":309161,"date":"2025-11-27T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309161\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:25:09","slug":"dylan-cease-makes-blue-jays-history-with-reported-210m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309161\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Cease Makes Blue Jays History With Reported $210M Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been reports out there all offseason to this point insinuating that the Toronto Blue Jays have been interested in adding an ace-level pitcher, and they finally accomplished the goal on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Toronto reportedly is signing<\/a> 29-year-old starter Dylan Cease to a seven-year, $210 million deal, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.<\/p>\n

“Right-hander Dylan Cease and the Toronto Blue Jays are in agreement on a seven-year, $210 million contract, pending a physical, sources tell ESPN,” Passan wrote. “The defending American League champions get one of the best arms on the free agent market.” <\/p>\n

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Cease is a star. He’s 29 years old with a career 3.88 ERA in 188 total games in the big leagues with the Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres. He didn’t have a great 2025 season as he logged a 4.55 ERA, but his 3.56 FIP shows that the righty had some bad luck. FIP is a metric that attempts to show how effective a pitcher is by taking defense out of the picture.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the Blue Jays like what they see because the $210 million reported deal will become the team’s biggest deal given in free agency and top overall to a pitcher. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has the largest overall contract in team history, but that was an extension and not signed in free agency.<\/p>\n

Before the Cease deal, Toronto’s six-year, $150 million deal<\/a> with George Springer was the largest deal given by Toronto in free agency.<\/p>\n

Toronto wanted pitching and now the first big-name starter is off the board.<\/p>\n

More MLB: Blue Jays \u2018Checked In\u2019 On $116.5M Infielder: Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been reports out there all offseason to this point insinuating that the Toronto Blue Jays have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[1513,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-309161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-blue-jays","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309161","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=309161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}