6 Jays who WON'T be back in 2027...

So big news to go over today is ahead of what's going to be one of the most critical off-seasons in recent memory for the Blue Jays. Some new reports have started to fly revealing five Jays who won't be back next season. We're going to break down these new reports, these new updates, and discuss what they mean going forward and how they alter. Ross Atkins' plan this off-season is, folks, there are a lot of changes that are going to and need to happen for this team, as well as a few other fun updates to go over today. But before we get into it all, thank you guys for your continued support and also happy Thanksgiving. it's a uh it's a very very fun time of the year obviously it's unfortunate the jays aren't in the playoffs but thank you guys for all the support the entire year i'm thankful for that and hopefully you guys are enjoying you know your thanksgiving your families or whoever you celebrate with folks let's dive right into i want to dive right like right into the action today um five jays who won't be back now new article dropped from sports illustrated as well as a few other sources and let's just start with the first one it's kind of the elephant in the room and that is george springer so george springer obviously is coming off of a very interesting year um up and down I mean, if you could finish with 15 home runs, 54 RBIs, a 726 OPS. The article basically goes on to talk about how George Springer, despite loving Toronto, they might need to replace him because of his kind of lack of lack of versatility at this point. Now, also, as I go through each one of these, I want you guys to leave comments about who you agree with, who you disagree with. Of course, we're going to it's a fun little exercise in that front. But the article basically talks about this, right? Saying that the expiring deal creates a DH opening to which they can go out and actually get other guys and kind of potentially upgrade offensively um his second half improvement complicates it because he did end up being a decent you know throughout the second half of the year but any replacement must add offensive value and this is where i want to ask you guys where do you guys currently feel surrounding George Springer because on one hand he's a fan favorite um and he might retire as well which is a part of it um he's a fan favorite finished with you know like a one more it wasn't a great season for him um but what he does bring is a veteran you know clubhouse veteran leadership at the same time though i'm kind of of the mindset it might be time to move on because he loves Toronto but i think with this team you may need to get a better DH like a better offensive DH or at least bring somebody in who can help now at the same time um Springer said he loves this place he's thankful to be here um and he loves Toronto right so we all know that's kind of always going to be the case i don't think it was ever about him not loving Toronto but where do you guys kind of feel how do you guys feel about the uh about the George Springer potential of him leaving because again he's weighing between retirement between you know not retirement he got emotional thinking about it towards the end of the season so i don't think George Springer is going to return to the team he's probably the most polarizing name that is going to be gone just because he's been around for five plus years and we all love him but i think you need to open up more versatility offensively more importantly just improve overhaul the team's offense a little bit right and i think that's the beginning of it will be potentially George Springer leaving so Comment down below what your thoughts are on that. You might think I'm crazy. You might agree with each one. Leave a comment. The second one the article talks about is Mr. Maximus Scherzer. So he talks about Max Scherzer here and the potential of him leaving. Now let's start with Max Scherzer by prefacing saying that he said he's going to make the decision about playing next year later in the offseason. So we're not going to hear about Max Scherzer for a while. Now, we might hear some rumblings from Mitch Bannon and some reporters and kind of hear some things about who who may be interested in him if he does return. i think if he does return to baseball the jays might actually give him another chance i mean he looked not great last year but he also didn't like he wasn't bad either right it was it was a weird season for him he finished with a 5.74 ERA like it was not a great ERA by any means but he actually looked okay towards the end of the season now the jays i think have to be careful about this right because they desperately need reliability out of the out of the starting rotation we think about last year and how many arms they had compared to how many arms they finished with like you need reliability and we're gonna have another starting pitcher right after this in Shane Bieber but you definitely need reliability for talking about you know innings and that's why I thought bringing Kevin Gausman back and I still think bringing Kevin Gausman back will be a very solid decision like I think that's one that makes a lot of sense for the Toronto Blue Jays whereas Max Scherzer can you rely on his health is it going to be a heavily incentive you know kind of related uh related obviously so we can look at one of his best starts of the year he finished with seven innings and one earned run we remember that it was his strongest start of the year he still got it the question is do the jays want to actually give it to him right like his velo's down a little bit 92.9 miles an hour i'm gonna see some of the advanced analytics here so comment down below what your thoughts are on mr max scherzer legendary career of course do you guys think he should return to the blue jays should the blue jays let him go i think at this point it's probably best to hey let him go in exchange for some other names because at the end of the day folks they have a lot of work to do and um a lot a lot of work to now in the same vein another name that was brought up in this article is mr shane bieber now he didn't play a ton last year finished with 55 innings pitched finished with a 4.37 era i like the idea of bringing shane bieber back now the reason obviously the article talks about and kind of dives into the fact that we obviously know right it's price dependent he's hurt coming off tommy john uh they traded for him a couple years ago he opted into the player option i i think at this point i'm fine with bringing him back i think with a full off season of health and if he's not kind of relied on as someone who needs to throw 150 innings he's still a very effective pitcher Is he the pitcher he used to be? No, he is not, but if you can get him for cheap and ultimately a lot of these end up being price dependent like even George Springer, I think for the right price you could bring back, but people kind of talk about all over the place here. This is from Johnny, I want the record to show that I want Shane Bieber back in this ball club if the price is right and I don't necessarily disagree, um, I really don't, I think with the way that this team has kind of constructed its rotation, you have Dylan Cease you have Cody Ponce, you have Travis Savage outside of that we're going to have to wait and see like his burritos is going to be a factor do you bring Shane Bieber back? Because I'm sure there's some names I'm forgetting as well I don't hate what I saw from Shane Bieber last year, right? He has a multi-pitch mix looked really really solid at times looked really really rough at times, but the rotation health is going to be the biggest kind of thing here, right? We look at the injured list last year and it goes even beyond this, but from Bieber to Cease to Barrios to Ponce and these are just and there's way more than this that happened but this is kind of end the year, right Rudy Martin too, which is funny, Jameson Taillon Patrick Corbin, Jonathan Clase, who actually looked really solid in his few games Addison Berger missed the whole year, Santander is not mentioned here, there's so many guys that got injured, um, hopefully Cody Ponce with his torn Achilles I believe it was or ACL Achilles, whatever, we're gonna ACL, he he's gonna be back right? Hopefully he's going to be good. Are they going to bring Patrick Corbin back? Probably not. Do they bring Tyone back? There's a chance there, but I think there's a very, very strong case to be made for, you know, Bieber. And I think you would have to be very confident in his medical kind of position. The contract will have to be pretty cheap and you also have to have enough depth elsewhere to potentially cover some of his missteps. But if all those things line up, I think you're fine with that, with bringing him back. Now, a couple other names I want to kind of hammer out quickly let's start with Shane or Patrick Corbin obviously played you know pitch 80 innings last year there's no world where he's back 5.51 ERA maybe they bring him back as like a spring training invite but he is also 37 turning 38 years old so I'm going to brush by him I don't think he's back Jameson Tyone actually look pretty comfortable in the Jays uniform I think there is a chance that Mr. Jameson Tyone potentially comes back he wasn't disastrous this team needs to shoot higher though right they need to get a big time starter they need to hopefully bring back Shane Bieber then you need to add a bunch of bats I actually feel fairly confident in the starting rotation but not have to go and bring a bunch of guys like Tyone like Corbin when I'm talking about bringing these guys back he only has like potential minor league deals like have some depth down there because they needed it this year and the final one that I think is I mean there's also you know Paul Sewald and Spencer Arrighetti and Arrighetti is obviously not going to like leave but he could be in triple a most of the year there is one name and that is Davis Schneider i think there is a very real chance that Davis Schneider um either gets traded gets DFA'd to something like that he's coming off a really rough year they're struggling to find places to put him in they're struggling to find areas where they can actually get use out of Davis Schneider and i mean we look at some of his stats we look at kind of the way things have have gone he's obviously mainly a pull hitter i don't know folks i mean like obviously comparing him to George Springer doesn't really make a ton of sense but I just wanted to bring this up because like you know like these are both two guys that are probably going to leave and it's because they're disappointing seasons last year and the Jays offensive or offseason priority you need guys more dependable you need guys who can actually hit for more power guys you can play in the starting lineup every day so comment down below what your thoughts are on this folks who should Toronto bring back out of George Springer Shane Bieber Paul Seawald if you want to throw him in there Davis Schneider at the end of the day do you think they should bring Schneider back if you leave them let me know down below thank you guys for watching