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<\/p>\nBlue Jays president and CEO Mark Shapiro has signed a five-year contract extension, Rogers Communications (which owns the Jays) announced Friday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe opportunity to lead the Blue Jays organization over the past 10 years has been incredibly fulfilling,\u201d Shapiro said in a statement within today\u2019s announcement. \u201cTogether we have built an organization with people who care deeply about baseball an take immense pride in being Canada\u2019s team. I am grateful and honoured to be able to continue that work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shapiro, 58, has spent the past decade as the Blue Jays\u2019 president and CEO. He\u2019d previously been the general manager and, eventually, team president in Cleveland. His past contract ran through the end of the calendar year. Current Jays general manager Ross Atkins was hired away from Cleveland by Shapiro; he\u2019d previously been their vice president of player personnel.<\/p>\n
Both Shapiro and Atkins have now signed multiple long-term extensions to remain in place as the top decision-makers for the Jays. Shapiro is now locked in through the 2030 season. Atkins signed a five-year extension back in 2021 and is currently signed through the end of the 2026 campaign.\u00a0 Given the Jays\u2019 run to Game 7 of the World Series, it stands to reason that Atkins could be in line for an extension of his own at some point in the coming months.<\/p>\n
Under Shapiro and Atkins, the Jays have won 89 or more games in four of the past five seasons. They hadn\u2019t had any playoff success \u2014 save for the 2016 season, though that was a largely inherited club from the prior regime \u2014 but broke through in a major way in 2025 when they toppled the Yankees and Mariners in the ALDS and ALCS before coming just two outs away from the franchise\u2019s first World Series victory since the 1992-93 repeat.<\/p>\n
While the Jays have often been runners-up for prominent free agents in recent seasons (e.g. Juan Soto<\/a>, Shohei Ohtani<\/a>), this year\u2019s World Series push and the team\u2019s $500MM investment in Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> have perhaps helped to establish the Jays as more of a free agent destination. Right-hander Dylan Cease<\/a> just inked a seven-year contract, and Toronto has shown interest in both Kyle Tucker<\/a> and in re-signing star infielder Bo Bichette<\/a>, who reached the open market for the first time in his career this offseason. Ownership\u2019s decision to commit to another extension with Shapiro is both a vote of confidence in the team\u2019s current core and vision, as well as a signal that Toronto will be continuing in win-now mode for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Jays president and CEO Mark Shapiro has signed a five-year contract extension, Rogers Communications (which owns the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,40881,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-340808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mark-shapiro","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340808","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=340808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}