Roki Sasaki's comments about signing with Dodgers leave Blue Jays fans frustrated

For the Toronto Blue Jays, the vast majority of their offseason has been shrouded by a cloud of darkness. Sure, they've acquired some pieces here and there to shore up their roster, but there's still so much more work to be done.

Roki Sasaki, one of the world's greatest pitchers at just 23 years old, was atop the Blue Jays' wish list and was oh-so-close to heading north of the border to start his career in the States. Instead, he wound up joining the Dodgers in your average "the rich get richer" story.

This resulted in one of many heartbreaks for Blue Jays fans this winter. At various points, they had also had hopes that their favorite team would be signing Juan Soto, Teoscar Hernandez, Blake Snell, Max Fried, Tanner Scott and Danny Jansen among many others. The list goes on and on.

Sasaki will begin his MLB career in a Dodgers uniform, which was already more than enough to get Blue Jays fans fired up. The Dodgers have "stolen" Shohei Ohtani, Hernandez, Hyeseong Kim and Snell out from under the Blue Jays over the past year or so, so Sasaki heading to L.A. was pretty close to worst-case scenario.

As if Blue Jays fans needed any more reasons to be riled up, the right-hander's first press conference post-signing consisted of him making comments that tell quite the story. However, it's one the entire industry is well aware of by now.

As relayed by Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times, Sasaki said, "“The number one thing that stood out was the stability of the front office.”

Roki Sasaki throws subtle shade at Blue Jays front office after signing with Dodgers

If that isn't some sort of jab at Ross Atkins and Co., we're not sure what is.

Even if these comments were made directly towards Atkins and the rest of the Blue Jays' front office, it's difficult to act surprised. After all, they've fumbled extension talks (at least, to this point) with both Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette, they've missed out on basically every single free agent and trade target they've had their eyes on, and they've also sent a supremely underperforming team onto the field in each of the past two seasons.

Oh, and don't get us started on that head-scratching trade to land Myles Straw from the Guardians.

These Blue Jays are coming off of a 74-88 campaign in 2024 and it's very hard to see how this team is going to be any better coming into 2025. This, amongst many other things, has to have Atkins' seat hotter than Texas in July.

Blue Jays fans are getting antsy for their club to make some moves, but they've done next to nothing this winter. There's still some time to make things right by landing someone like Pete Alonso or Alex Bregman, but Sasaki is entirely justified in electing to join a "stable" front office rather than coming over to the clown show that's been going on north of the border for far too long now.

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