The one trade Toronto Blue Jays fans eagerly begged for but didn’t get

The Toronto Blue Jays sure had a productive 2025 trade deadline. They managed to address their pitching needs for both the starting rotation and relief corps. The Jays were able to pry Shane Bieber from the Cleveland Guardians, along with making strong bullpen additions in Seranthony Domínguez and Louis Varland.

Despite all that action, one main area remained to be covered and that was acquiring a power bat to significantly boost the Jays’ offensive potential going forward. They did their best by recruiting former 20-home run man Ty France from the Minnesota Twins. However, that wasn’t the trade that Jays fans eagerly begged for to transform the team into juggernauts. That trade was the potential one for Arizona Diamondbacks power slugger Eugenio Suárez, who ended up going to the Seattle Mariners.

The one trade Toronto Blue Jays fans eagerly begged for but didn’t get

So why Suárez? Well, first off, he just so happens to be putting together a career year in which he has already tallied 36 home runs and 87 RBIs on the season. For both statistical categories, it places him among the top five players in the entire league. Not to mention he would be leading the Jays in both categories by a landslide. By adding someone of such impact to any team, especially a true contender, would likely instantly convert them into World Series favourites.

But now after joining the Mariners, the nightmares may have just begun for the Jays. With Seattle already in possession of the current MLB home run and RBI leader in Cal Raleigh, suddenly pairing him up with Suárez quickly brings back potential memories of fearsome duo sluggers such as Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, or more recently the Bash Brothers José Canseco and Mark McGwire. In addition, the Mariners may have all of a sudden become favourites to win the AL West Division despite currently trailing the Houston Astros by 4 1/2 games.

More worrisome is the fact that Seattle could be in a collision course with the Jays once again this postseason, and we all remember what happened the last time the two faced each other in the playoffs. Let’s just say Toronto fans would just want to flush those memories away for good. 

Sometimes, one of the best strategies to winning and success is to make sure your opponents don’t get any better by acquiring the impact player yourself. In this case, the Jays should have gone all-in to get Suárez. Yes, the likes of Ernie Clement, now former Jay Will Wagner and even Addison Barger may have been doing a fine job at third base for Toronto this season. But nothing beats adding a star game-changer like Suárez to convert an already scary Jays lineup into an unstoppable one.

As a result, the Jays might have tried as hard as they could, or perhaps just not hard enough. Nevertheless, they severely dropped the ball on the best bat available from the trade deadline by a wide margin. Hopefully, this missed opportunity doesn’t come back to haunt them in the end.