3 Blue Jays players potentially entering their final days with the team in 2025

As the 2025 MLB season winds down, the Toronto Blue Jays will be looking to lock down an American League East division title to go along with their postseason berth that they have already clinched. But at the same time, it means we are also approaching the upcoming offseason once the MLB Playoffs are completed.

For the Blue Jays, they will have a select number of players heading to free agency in which they would want to their best to retain. However, for some of them, they could be entering their last days with the club unless Blue Jays General Manager Ross Atkins could do something about it. Here, we will take a look at three Toronto players that could see their tenure with the team end upon the conclusion of the 2025 season.

3 Blue Jays players entering their final days with the team in 2025

Seranthony Domínguez 

As one of the key acquisitions at the trade deadline by the Jays, Seranthony Domínguez was expected to help stabilize their relief corps for the stretch run. Having been a solid option for the Baltimore Orioles prior to the trade, Domínguez has delivered for the most part during the past couple of months with Toronto. In 22 relief appearances, the 30-year-old right-hander has compiled a 2-1 record with a tidy 3.26 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, giving up just seven earned runs with 22 strikeouts in just 19 1/3 innings of work. 

Normally, with numbers like that, Domínguez should be a shoo-in for the Jays to bring back next season. However, he is projected by Spotrac to have a market value of over $10 million AAV, which would make him the highest paid reliever on the team by AAV despite not even being the closer.

It would also be a considerable raise from the $3.625 million AAV he currently makes and in which the Jays were on the hook for less than $900,000 this season. That itself could be enough to make Toronto look elsewhere and try to find solutions internally as well, like how they did with Tommy Nance and Braydon Fisher this year.

Shane Bieber

As perhaps the biggest trade deadline move made by the Jays this season, Toronto brought in former Cy Young winner Shane Bieber from the Cleveland Guardians. Coming off over a year’s layoff due to Tommy John surgery, his addition to the squad has become even more vital after the recent struggles of José Berríos and Max Scherzer, and now with the injury to Chris Bassitt.

All Bieber has done for the Jays is provide quality outings almost each time out, as he has posted a 3–2 record with a solid 3.57 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, giving up 14 earned runs with 34 strikeouts in 35 1/3 innings pitched over six starts.

Despite the small sample size, Bieber is already a lock to be one of the Jays top two starters along with Kevin Gausman heading into the MLB Playoffs. However, the more that he delivers, the more likely he would want to cash in for the upcoming free agency by opting out of his player option and hit the market.

Currently on just a two-year, $26 million contract, Bieber’s performance and pedigree could demand more than that $26 million per season on the open free agent market and in doing so, price himself out of the Jays range in the process.

Bo Bichette 

Finally, we have one of the faces of the franchise since 2019 in Bo Bichette. After an uncharacteristic down season in 2024, many believed that the Jays could have potentially gotten a value extension done with Bichette during this past season while his value was low. However, a deal wasn’t made and the star shortstop has gone on to have a huge bounce back campaign in 2025, recapturing much of his prior elite form.

On the season prior to his current knee injury, Bichette has amassed a stellar .311 average, .840 OPS, together with 78 runs scored, 44 doubles, 18 home runs and 94 RBIs in 139 games played with Toronto. More importantly, he has looked like one of the best pure hitters in the game once again, being among the league leaders in hits for the season.

The Jays couldn’t get the job done when Bichette was cold coming off last season, so his hot 2025 campaign has just made the task that much more daunting now for Toronto to retain their star shortstop for the foreseeable future. Hopefully, Jays management and their fans can do something about it. Otherwise, we could be counting down Bichette’s final days with the franchise.