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

Zach Pop

During Burr and Nance's time on the Blue Jays, there were stretches where they performed like respectable big league-caliber arms. The same cannot be said for Pop, who limped to the finish line this year with easily the worst stats of his career.

Pop, originally acquired at the 2022 trade deadline, was excellent in the second half of that year and not so great last season. A lot of that could be contributed to multipe injuries he battled through, so he had the benefit of the doubt entering the current campaign.

Instead of making good on that, the 27-year-old had essentially a year-long implosion. He made 58 appearances for the Jays, but he finished his season with a 5.59 ERA. 5.53 FIP and 73 ERA+. The fact that both his ERA and FIP were so high and so close together suggests that he was entirely deserving of the inflated ERA numbers he posted. It just wasn't pretty for him at any point this year.

Pop will be arbitration-eligible for the first time in his pro career, and it's likely to end in a non-tender. The Blue Jays can afford to re-up with all of their arb-eligible players, but it's not a matter of being able to afford it; it's a matter of whether or not these players even have a future on the Jays. Most of them do. Pop does not.