The Blue Jays end up trading controllable assets for too little
In addition to moving players out with expiring contracts, the Jays can take full advantage of the buyer’s market that has rapidly transpired in the past day or so and include some of their precious controllable assets as part of their trade deadline strategy. With players under team control, the Jays could potentially receive some far better deals and offers from prospective teams. Reason being that they would provide much more greater value to the contender that could go beyond what just a rental would normally bring.
For instance, by moving players along the lines of a Kevin Gausman, Chris Bassitt, Isiah Kiner-Falefa or even superstar Bo Bichette, they could potentially land the Jays a way more attractive package in return. If in doubt, just take a look at these rumoured potential packages for Bichette. So whether their main goal going forward was looking to retool or rebuild, it would no doubt help accelerate that process in a huge way with prime top 10 organizational prospects coming back the other way.
However, if the Jays become too overzealous and end up trading such controllable assets recklessly for anything that they can find in the market, it could essentially backfire on them if the return happens to be way too little. In doing so, not only would the Jays lose a valuable controllable asset, but they could also end up severely dragging out their retool/rebuild. Therefore, in such cases, perhaps holding onto them until a better situation presented itself would be the most wise move. Otherwise, the Jays, believe it or not, could actually become even more worse off than expected.