Matt Chapman or Robbie Ray? Which current giant would have kept Blue Jays longer?

At one point in their career, the third Baseman Matt Chapman and the Pitcher Robbie Ray could have signed long -term offers to extend their terms with the Toronto Blue Jay. Neither of them did it and today (Sunday) both will adapt both as members of the San Francisco Giants to take over the Blue Jays in the Rogers Center.

During their time with the Blue Jays, both Chapman and Ray were part of separate playoff runs for the Blue Jays. Ray helped the 2020 squad to the Covid season expanded after the season, but left Toronto after the 2021 campaign. Chapman joined the Blue Jays through retail in the 2021 and after making it into the playoffs in 2022 and 2023, he went as a free agent.

Since both players contribute their part to help the Giants to pursue a place for the 2025 mlb for the off -season, we can both think and do a case whether the Blue Jays Chapman or Ray should have kept.

Why Blue Jays Ray or Chapman should have kept

In both years, Chapman was a member of the Blue Jays, Toronto, in the off -season, but was swept in the Wild Card series. Chapman, a three-time winner of the gold glove before he came to Toronto, also brought his elite defense into the Blue Jays and received a Gold Glove Award in 2023. Since Kelly Gruber in 1990 he has been the first player to receive this award in the hot corner for the Blue Jays.

However, Chapman fought aggressively. While he had a good year of strength in 2022 (27 Home Runs, 116 Ops+), he also ruled out 170 times. In 2023, its performance figures fell by 10 fewer Homeruns and the admission of 22 fewer runs that were taken from the previous year. After 2023, Chapman joined the Giants and won a gold glove in 2024. In his first season, he achieved another strong electricity year in San Fran (27 Home Runs, 124 Ops+), but his figures in 2025 are no longer reduced.

His success in Toronto was obvious for Ray. Ray was taken over by the Blue Jays in a trade in the Arizona Diamondbacks in the middle of the 2020 60-game season. Ray went 1-1 with an average of 4.79 with an average of 4.79 in five games (4 starts), while the Blue Jays did the 2020 off -season, but he dominated in his 2021 season.

In 2021 Ray won the American League Cy Young Award, something that didn't see many experts come when you consider that he didn't play the all-star game. Ray recorded a 13-7 record with an ERA of 2.84. Ray also led the American League Pitcher with a war of 6.9 and 193.1 Inning and led all MLB with 248 strikes. Solid numbers from the south paw that the Blue Jays have brought within a game of a playoff spot.

However, Ray was a free agent after 2021 and the Blue Jays did not re -sign it. He decided to sign the Seattle Mariners, while the Blue Jays brought the former giant, Kevin Gausman and the former Seattle Mariners Pitcher Yusei Kikuchi.

While Gausman had a great season for Toronto in 2022, Kikuchi was somewhat inconsistent with the Blue Jay's and does not replace Ray's CY -Junge. Ray was also a needed left -hander that the Blue Jays lacked in her rotation.

What was more engraved for the Blue Jays in 2022 was Ray was a member of the Mainer's team that defeated the Blue Jays in the Wild Card series. A stomach against the stomachs of Blue Jay fans, considering that Ray was a firm blue Jay who was on the opposite side and celebrated a playoff series victory in Toronto.

While Ray never returned to his cyung form with the Mariners and fought injuries in the last two seasons, he redeemed himself in 2025. Ray made the all-star game in 2025 and is solid for the Giants with a 9: 3 record and an ERA of 2.65 ERA.

The Blue Jays and Giants had both gymnastics seasons in 2025, but after the 2021 season it would have been a big step for the Blue Jays for the Blue Jays, since she would have given her rotation with much more depth and stability when a handful of pitcher navigated through a handful of pitcher in the last season. From openers to Bullpen days to the starters, that Ray could make a big difference with the Blue Jays.