Casey Janssen signs with the Nationals

My favourite Blue Jays player from the past several years is now a Washington National. According to FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal, reliever Casey Janssen signed a one-year deal with the Nationals which includes a mutual option, worth $5 million guaranteed including the buyout of the 2016 option. That number is probably not what Janssen was thinking of when he went into the All-Star break last season, but food poisoning, and a collapsed strikeout rate, caught up with him and he no longer was the elite closer we so enjoyed for the past few seasons.

We knew that this was coming. Janssen wasn't coming back after his comments after the trade deadline last season, but official news that he is not coming back still hits hard. He was a Blue Jay for 10 years--not too many players can say that.

I am a little too emotional to continue writing right now so I'll just leave you with this: