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Blue Jays: Mark Shapiro signs five-year extension
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Ryley Delaney
Dec 12, 2025, 11:30 ESTUpdated: Dec 12, 2025, 11:51 EST
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Toronto Blue Jays’ president and CEO Mark Shapiro is here to stay.
On Friday morning, the team announced that Shapiro has signed a five-year extension, keeping him in charge of the Blue Jays day-to-day operations until after the 2030 season. His contract was set to end in early 2026.
Shapiro was always going to get re-signed. The Blue Jays are on the heels of a World Series appearance, falling just two outs shy of winning it all for the first time since 1993. It was the fourth time in the past six years that the Blue Jays have made the postseason, with one of the missed years coming on the final day.
Moreover, it was the second time since Shapiro took over that the Blue Jays made it to at least the American League Championship Series. Shapiro joined the Jays after the 2015 season and inherited an old core in win-now mode. The Jays squeezed out another run to the ALCS in 2016, but fell in five games to his old team, Cleveland.
The old core aged out, and the Blue Jays entered a rebuilding phase from 2017 until 2020. Shapiro got the owners, Rogers, to allow for a big splash ahead of the 2020 season, signing Hyun Jin Ryu. That trend has continued over the past half decade, with the Jays opening up the books for George Springer, Kevin Gausman, José Berríos, and most recently, Dylan Cease. The Jays also signed Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to an extension worth $500 million, making him a Blue Jay for life.
That isn’t even Shapiro’s best work. Opened in 1989, Rogers Centre was once the pinnacle of baseball stadiums, but had long become a large, outdated, concrete building. Renovations were made ahead of the 2023 and 2024 seasons, turning the stadium into a modern ballpark with plenty to do.
On the player development side of things, the Blue Jays opened their Player Development Complex in early 2021. This has not just led to the farm improving, but free agents to recognize the Blue Jays as a first class organization.
With this signing, Shapiro will at least spend a decade and a half at the helm of the Blue Jays, and it’s hard to disagree with the decision. Next up for the team is getting deals done for Ross Atkins and John Schneider, as their contracts are set to expire after the 2026 season.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.

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