{"id":421233,"date":"2026-01-20T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421233\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:40:14","slug":"blue-jays-framber-valdez-buzz-debunked-by-mlb-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421233\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Framber Valdez Buzz Debunked By MLB Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite failing haul in Kyle Tucker and\/or retain Bo Bichette, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/teams\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> have had a positive offseason, especially when it comes to their starting rotation. Adding Dylan Cease and Cody Ponce to a staff that already includes Kevin Gausman, Shane Bieber, and Trey Yesavage was an undeniably strong start to the offseason for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>But could the Blue Jays actually still be shopping for top-line starting pitching?<\/p>\n<p>Bleacher Report\u2019s MLB writer Kerry Miller reminded us all on Monday that Toronto had an in-person meeting with free-agent left-hander Framber Valdez back in November.<\/p>\n<p>Miller then wondered aloud if the Jays renew their interest in Valdez, now that they missed out on Tucker and won\u2019t be spending the $350 million they allegedly offered to the outfielder over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, though, Miller concluded that a Valdez-Jays union is not likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSave for occasional mentions of the Orioles\u2019 interest level, Framber Valdez\u2019s market has been strangely quiet all offseason,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25362893-bs-meter-latest-mlb-trade-and-free-agency-rumors-analysis-predictions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miller wrote<\/a>. \u201cBut he\u2019s eventually going to sign somewhere, right? And the Blue Jays are clearly all-in on winning in 2026, right? It\u2019s still an unlikely pairing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Blue Jays signing Valdez would be about as superfluous as the Red Sox signing Ranger Su\u00e1rez with all the rotation options they already had,\u201d Miller continued. \u201cIt would also cost them way more \u2026 Every dollar the Blue Jays add to their payroll at this point comes with a 90 cent tax. So if they add Valdez at a $35M AAV, it would add $31.5M to their tax payment, too. They were willing to bite that bullet for Tucker, but for Valdez? Probably not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite failing haul in Kyle Tucker and\/or retain Bo Bichette, the Toronto Blue Jays have had a positive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,24973,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-421233","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-framber-valdez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421233","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=421233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}