Right-hander Dylan Cease has agreed to a seven-year, $210 million contract with the Blue Jays on Wednesday, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. The club has not yet confirmed the deal.

Cease is one of baseball's premier strikeout artists. He's eclipsed the 200-strikeout mark in each of the past five seasons, the only pitcher in the Majors to do so. No other pitcher has more than three 200-K seasons in the past five years.

Cease has averaged 221 strikeouts per season since 2021, and his 1,106 total strikeouts over the last five seasons lead MLB. Zack Wheeler (1,041) and Kevin Gausman (1,020) are the only other pitchers with 1,000 K's in that timespan.

That elite strikeout track record, along with Cease's relatively young age -- he'll be entering his age-30 season in 2026 -- made him

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