Cause they are cheap ?
Jays spent the 24th highest on FA over the last decade at just over 300 million
Red Sox were first over 1 billion. We don’t need to try and compete with the Yanks and Sox, but no reason to not be top 10 or at least in that range , especially considering we were contenders for some of those years
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...l-30-mlb-teams