Let's preview the Toronto Blue Jays for 2026. Up next on Fantasy Baseball today.

Welcome to On the Beat, our little mini team preview series. We're doing here a fantasy

baseball today. I am Chris Towers, joined by Ben Nicholson Smith, who covers the Toronto Blue Jays for

Sportsnet. Make sure to give him a follow on X at B Nicholson Smith or BNS baseball on Blue Sky. And Ben, I hear you're a fan of the pod. So thanks for joining us. You know what, Chris, huge fan of the pod. You guys do great work. You and Frank and Scott on a daily basis. Like you're so informed about what's happening around the major leagues. obviously I'm dialed on the Blue Jays, but just as a way to like keep up with the league and what's happening, it is honestly you guys do great stuff.

So I'm very happy to be joining you guys.

Thank you so much.

And it's a it's a big time to be covering the Toronto Blue Jays coming off.

I mean, the most agonizing World Series loss in Major League history,

I think. But credit to the Blue Jays, they are going all in. They are making a ton of additions.

As we are recording this, this is on January 7th. The Blue Jays are still reportedly in on both Bobachette and Kyle Tucker.

So by the time you listen to this, some things could be out of date. That's just the nature

of the beast when it comes to this Blue Jays offseason, but they have already added. Dylan

Sees, Tyler Rogers, Kazuma Okamoto, Cody Ponce, maybe more coming. And really, they haven't lost very much.

You know, Boba Chet, in limbo, Chris Bassett, a bunch of like role players and bullpen pieces.

But for the most part, it's just been net additions to a Blue Jays team that was, I don't know, a tripped Andy Paez away from winning the World Series.

Right.

It's a big time for the Blue Jays and they are all in.

So I just, I don't know, what are your thoughts on the off season?

How likely do you think it is that they do make that that big splash still?

Yeah, they've been so busy.

And really, this is kind of the culmination of a lot of things.

They've been after big free agents before landing Dylan Sees in the way that they did,

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