Just like it looked like the New York Yankees were ready to crash another party, the Toronto Blue Jays pushed it right back at them. This time, they did it loudly! After weeks of chatter that Brian Cashman and the Yankees are hovering around Munetaka Murakami, Toronto finally decided to show its teeth.

“The #BlueJays have interest in Japanese 1B/3B Munetaka Murakami, according to Jon Morosi” posted Sleeper Blue Jays. And the entire picture flips. But honestly, the Yankees’ involvement in this sweepstakes always felt intentional in the first place.

Kiley McDaniel from ESPN, in fact, mentioned that New York isn’t chasing Murakami because they need him right now, but because of how they evaluate the upside. That alone seems like a Cashman move—get involved and complicate things and see who

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