The biggest questions the Blue Jays must answer in 2025

It's long been said that hopes springs eternal in spring training.

Regardless of how the offseason went or how downtrodden the roster looks, every team is enters the season undefeated with good vibes abound.

For some teams, those vibes carry over into a regular season filled with success, while other teams quickly realize that those positive vibes were fool's gold.

It's not quite clear where the Toronto Blue Jays fall on that spectrum.

While they missed out on the marquee names in free agency, they still made some solid additions and enter the start of the season with a talented roster that should be able to hold its own in one of the best divisions of baseball.

But the MLB season is a 162-game marathon that generates plenty of storylines and questions that surrond every team.

Here are the three biggest questions we have about the Blue Jays as enter the start of the season.

The three questions the Blue Jays must answer in 2025

Is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. part of the future?

At face value, this question should seem preposterous, because of course he should be. He's a 26-year-old four-time All-Star who already has 160 home runs and two Silver Slugger wins to his name.

But things aren't that cut and dry.

Guerrero's set to become a free agent at the end of the season, and he and the Blue Jays failed to reach an agreement before the start of spring training. And while Mark Shapiro hasn't given up hope on the Blue Jays' ability to extend Guerrero, every day that goes by without a deal means we're a day closer to the Blue Jays needing to compete against the other 29 teams in baseball to sign Guerrero.

And it's not like this is a situation where a strong start from Guerrero would quiet the noise. If he plays well, then all of a sudden all the chatter will be about his increase in value and how Toronto should make win-now moves. And if he struggles? Well...

This a distraction that's going to linger over the entire season. We'll have to wait and see how the franchise handles it.