
Guerrero, Jr.’s signing highlights a solid April
Toronto Blue Jays start 2025 strong with key player extension and promising early season results.
April 21, 2025
key points from this story:
- Guerrero, Jr. signs 14-year, $500 million deal
- Blue Jays had strong spring training performance
- Team split series with Orioles, swept Nationals
- Guerrero threatened to leave without extension
- Bo Bichette and Max Scherzer praised the signing
- Jays’ early season reviews are overwhelmingly positive
After a miserable last-place finish in the American League East in 2024, the trajectory arrow is pointed straight up for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2025. Let’s start with spring training. The Jays posted an 18-10 record and wound up as the No. 1 team in the Grapefruit League circuit, perhaps a harbinger of things to come. Then, after the first two weeks of the season, they found themselves right in the mix in the A.L East, splitting a four-game series with Baltimore Orioles, a team many had pegged as a potential World Series contender, and then sweeping a three-game set against Washington.
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