The Toronto Blue Jays starting rotation is much stronger on Wednesday than it was when the team was one win shy of becoming World Series champions.

General manager Ross Atkins made a major statement by signing former San Diego Padres starting pitcher Dylan Cease to a whopping seven-year deal worth $210 million, an average of $30 million per year, according to MLB insider Jon Heyman .

Cease's deal will make the winter meetings much more entertaining with the market starting to take shape. In the mean time, Toronto's rotation is now among the best in baseball, and one insider believes it was a statement to the other 29 teams.

"This is the exact type of deal the #BlueJays needed in their rotation," Keegan Matheson wrote on X . "Kevin Gausman and Shane Bieber are free agents after 2026

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