Sources: Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays agrees on the agreement of $ 500 million

The first goal player Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays agreed on an extension of a contract of $ 500 million over 14 years, while waiting for the sources, told Jeff Passan d’Espn on Sunday evening.

This is a monumental and without difference agreement to keep the local star in Toronto for the rest of his career, and presents himself while the Blue Jays 5-5 are in the middle of a road trip which takes them to Fenway Park to meet the Boston Red Sox on Monday.

Guerrero, 26, quadruple All-Star and son of the Vladimir Guerrero temple, said that he would not negotiate during the season after the parties do not reach an agreement before running for training in the spring. The parties continued, however, and gathered on an agreement which is the third largest in the history of the Major Baseball League, behind a contract of $ 765 million in Juan Soto, of $ 765 million with the New York Mets and the $ 700 million pact in Shohei Ohtani, of $ 700 million with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Blue Jays, Snakebit in recent years by Soto and Ohtani Signing elsewhere, have received a long -term commitment from their best local talent from the Roy Halladay renowned temple.

They had tried to lock Guerrero in the long term for years in vain. Toronto had a glimpse of Guerrero’s talent when he made his debut shortly after his 20th birthday in 2019 and dominated 15 times as a recruit. His season in small groups occurred in 2021, when Guerrero finished second behind Aaron Judge during the MVP vote of the American League after hitting .311 / .401 / .601 with 48 circuits and 111 points produced.

Guerrero followed with a pair of solid seasons but at flood of expectations in 2022 and 2023, and in mid-May 2024, he sported an OPS under 0.750 while the Blue Jays struggled on a last place. During his last 116 games, the warrero of 2021 reappeared, while he hit .343 / .407 / .604 with 26 circuits and 84 points produced.

With a wage bill which should exceed the luxury tax threshold of 241 million dollars, the Blue Jays put an end to the first week of the season at the top of the East American League classification. Toronto fell to 5-3 Friday after a defeat against the dishes, in which Guerrero collected a pair of simple, increasing his seasonal bar line to .267 / .343 / .367.

Between Guerrero and Bo Bichette’s free agency after the 2025 season, the Blue Jays were faced with a potential calculation. While Bichette is expected to play the season before hitting the free market, Guerrero’s agreement reduces the bite of Ohtani de Toronto’s activities in 2023 and Soto in 2024.

In addition to Soto, Toronto shook the signatures of Soto and the first basic player Pete Alonso with the dishes, the left -hander Max got fried with the New York Yankees and the inner field player Alex Bregman with the Boston Red Sox to reorganize their list. Toronto gave the Voltigeur Anthony Santander a $ 92.5 million $ 92.5 million contract, brought in the future temple of Max Scherzer renown on a one -year contract, 15.5 million dollars, strengthened his enclosure of the listers with Jeff Hoffman and Yimi Garcia, and exchanged for Platinum Glove Winning Andres Gimenez, who strikes Platinum Glove Winning Baseman, Gimenez, who strikes cleaning.

Toronto’s long -term commitments will allow significant financial flexibility in the future. In addition to Bichette and Scherzer, the right -hander Chris Bassitt and the lifts of Chad Green and Erik Swanson are free agents after this season. After 2026, the nine -digit chords of the Voltueur George Springer and the right -hander Kevin Gausman also left the books.

Building around Guerrero is a good starting point. One of the dozens of MLB players with at least two seasons of six or more victories above replacement since 2021, Guerrero is constantly found near the top of MLB rankings in the hardest balls, a metric which generally results in great success.

Like his father, who struck 449 circuits and beat .318 during a 16 -year career, Guerrero has rare ball battle skills, especially for a player with high -end power. During his six MLB seasons, Guerrero reached. 288 / .363 / .499 with 160 circuits, 510 products produced and 559 stick withdrawals against 353 steps.

Originally, a third basic player, Guerrero went to the first base during the 2020 season at the drop in the pandemic. If the Blue Jays had signed Alonso, they reported the possibility that Guerrero returns full time in third place, where he played a dozen games last year.

With the extension in place, the 6 -foot warrero 2 inch and 245 pounds should remain at the first basis and reset a market which had previously been overcome by the extension of eight years of 248 million dollars that Miguel Cabrera signed a little less from his 31st birthday in 2014.