MLB: Toronto Blue Jays sign up to acquire Lindor

After the Cleveland Indians were eliminated from the playoffs This year, rumors began about the possible departure of the star from the franchise, Francisco Lindor, who entered the last year of his contract and will become a free agent by 2022. The history of Cleveland reveals that they prefer to change their stars before paying them big contracts and the Puerto Rican has made it clear that he wants a super contract.

The truth is that there will be more than one team that is willing to put together a trade for Lindor and pay a year’s rent for perhaps the best pound-for-pound shortstop in all of Major Leagues, and perhaps the Toronto Blue Jays could be one of those teams. with the intention of acquiring the Puerto Rican, since according to Andrew Stoeten of The Athletic, the team is ready to acquire a star player to its roster.

General manager Ross Atkins is willing to spend large sums of money to hire a great free agent or search for him through the exchange market, Lindor being the main objective of the Blue Jays at this time, since the Canadian team was very active looking for a shortstop in the exchange market without much success and with the Puerto Rican available, it makes sense for Toronto.

This 2020, the Indians and Lindor agreed in arbitration to pay him his salary of 17.5 million dollars, so that by 2021 he could obtain a salary of just over 20 million.