All-Star First Honkman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a long -term contract extension worth $ 500 million past 14 seasons, Ken Rosenthal reports. The current season of 2025 was the course year of Guerrero, which means that the Deal Guerrero removes free agents from the 2025-26 class.
Guerrero’s contract, including no postponement, sets the record for the largest contract extension in MLB history. The record previously belonged to Mike Trout, who signed an extension of $ 426.5 million with the Los Angeles Angels prior to the 2019 season. Guerrero’s is also the third most lucrative contract in the history of MLB, with only Juan Sotos $ 765 million free-agent deal with the New York Mets and Shohei Ohtani’s $ 700 million Free-agent contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The 26-year-old Guerrero, who entered the current season, had a career-schuine line of .288/.363 /,500 (138 Ops+) with 160 home runs, 177 Doubles and a war of 21.3. Along the way, Guerrero has won a golden glove and a few silver sluggers and earned four straight All-Star selections. He also finished second in the MVP mood of the American League in 2021 and finished sixth in the vote last season.
Debuted in the Majors as a 20-year-old, Guerrero brought in line for a free desk at an unusually young age. That Plus would have led its distinctive record of performance on the record to one of the largest free-aged payment days ever and the Jays had to compete with the prospect of that healthy market for its services.
The expansion of the Jays van Guerrero, which she first signed as an international free agent in 2015 when he was 16 years old, comes after a meandering trip. Not so long ago, such an agreement seemed impossible because the two parties were not in accordance with Guerrero’s self -imposed deadline for negotiations in February prior to the start of training in the entire squadium in spring training.
“I am here. We have not received an agreement,” said Guerrero at the time through an interpreter. “Now they will have to compete with 29 other teams.”
Almost two months later, however, Blue Jays Team President Mark Shapiro hit a surprisingly optimistic tone about the chances of the club to secure the services of Guerrero for outside the 2025 season, although the assumed deadline for conversations had long passed.
“I think we’re going to sign it. I think we’re going to expand it,” said Shapiro. “The reason I feel that way is because we have such a clear alignment with the desired result.”
It appears that the words of Shapiro were more prophetic than quixotic, and Guerrero will indeed be a blue Jay for years.