8 Blue Jays players who won't be back in 2025

8 Blue Jays who won't be back in 2025

Note: the following list is in alphabetical order, it is not meant to be a ranking.

Bo Bichette

We've spent months and months talking about Bichette and his struggles this season. He spent a ton of time on the injured list and when he was healthy, he looked absolutely nothing like the player he was as recently as last year. Multiple injuries limited him to just 81 games this year and when he took the field it wasn't pretty.

All told, Bichette hit just four home runs with 31 RBI, a .225 batting average and 71 OPS+ along the way. His numbers in practically every single offensive category dipped and he looked lost, if not disinterested while playing. Rumors swirled all year long that he wasn't happy in Toronto and on many days, that could be seen on his face.

Recently, Bichette made an attempt to silence those rumors. Speaking to the media, the six-year veteran said that he wants to stay in Toronto and to win a World Series with Vladdy, a close friend of his. While this was an admirable approach, it feels like Bichette has already played his last game on the Blue Jays.

All along, it has felt like the Blue Jays were either going to extend Guerrero or Bichette. There was a point where it felt like both could land new contracts, but now things are leaning much more toward the former than the latter. So, we're saying Bichette gets traded this offseason.

Poor results be damned, there are bound to be multiple competitive teams out there that feel like they'll be the ones to "fix" Bichette. Since he'll be a pure rental heading into next year, a team like the Dodgers makes a ton of sense on paper. They can afford the hefty trade demand with the Blue Jays and they can also afford to extend Bichette if he manages to turn things around for them.

For what it's worth, in a recent episode of his At The Letters podcast, Blue Jays insider Arden Zwelling of Sportsnet said he'd like to see the Jays trade Spencer Horwitz and then turn around and sign infielder Ha-Seong Kim, who is a slick defender at shortstop with one hell of a bat. That exact scenario is what we're banking on here. Bichette out, Kim in.