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Toronto Blue Jays Willing To Give Melky Cabrera A Three-Year Deal?

By Ed Carroll

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The Toronto Blue Jays and outfielder Melky Cabrera are trying to work out a contract extension, and while talks are preliminary, the Blue Jays are reportedly willing to offer him a three-year contract.

Outfielder Melky Cabrera can be a free agent shortly after the World Series ends, but Cabrera and the Toronto Blue Jays appear to have begun preliminary discussions on a contract extension, and CBSSports.com’s Jon Heyman reports the Jays could be willing to offer him a three-year extension. Unless a deal is quickly reached, the Blue Jays will likely extend the one-year, $15.3-million qualifying offer to Cabrera and then continuing to negotiate a multi-year deal, but the qualifying offer ensures draft pick compensation if he signs elsewhere.

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Toronto hasn’t kept it a secret they like Cabrera a lot, and the 30-year old has apparently fit well into the team’s clubhouse. The Blue Jays signed Cabrera to a two-year, $16-million dollar deal after the 2012 season, despite the outfielder having a terrific offensive season with the San Francisco Giants and being worth 4.5 fWAR. But he was suspended for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs in the second half of that 2012 season, and though he was eligible to return for the playoffs, the Giants basically told Cabrera to head home and won the championship without him.

But Cabrera has rebounded marvelously with the Blue Jays, after injuries limited him to 88 games in 2013, he seems to have regained the offensive form he had with the Giants in 2012 and the Kansas City Royals in 2011. Cabrera hit 16 home runs and a .351 on base percentage for the Jays last year.

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