TORONTO – The latest off-season signposts came and went as expected for the Toronto Blue Jays, who watched Bo Bichette decline the $22.025-million qualifying offer ahead of one deadline Tuesday and added Ricky Tiedemann to the 40-man roster before another.

Bichette joined fellow free agents Dylan Cease, Edwin Diaz, Zac Gallen, Michael King, Kyle Schwarber, Ranger Suarez, Kyle Tucker and Framber Valdez in rejecting the offer, a sign each expects to do far better on the open market. Players leery of how being a qualified free agent – guaranteeing their former team a compensatory draft pick and costing a non-incumbent signing team a draft pick – will affect their market sometimes accept, which Trent Grisham (Yankees), Shota Imanaga (Cubs), Gleyber Torres (Tigers) and Brandon Woodruff (Brewer

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