Well, he's technically replacing Bautista which on paper is about a 3 WAR improvement from last year (-1.7 WAR for Bautista, +1.5 WAR for Granderson).
Not a flashy high profile high risk move, but could end up being great value wise.
Nice to have another left hand bat and a solid veteran with a good clubhouse rep to help bring along Hernandez and Alford for a year.
Sure it'd be great to get a guy like Yelich, but he's gonna cost too much and you can tell the Jays are aiming to build from within long term and are just trying to get by for a few years while the big guns like Vladdy and Bo continue to develop.
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