Smoak will be joined in Milwaukee by former Blue Jay Eric Sogard, with reports saying he signed a one-year deal with a club option for 2021. Smoak’s wife Kristin also shared a thank you note to ...

Justin Smoak of the Toronto Blue Jays walks off the field after his team defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, in what could be his last game with the club, in Toronto on Sept. 29, 2019.Mark Blinch/Getty ...

Some information may no longer be current. The Blue Jays’ Justin Smoak, centre, lines up a high five during Monday’s game against the Boston Red Sox in Toronto. Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images ...

Justin Smoak came to the major leagues in 2010 as a former first-round draft pick, full of promise, and quickly turned into a replacement-level player whose primary asset was occasional power.

When Toronto Blues Jays slugger Justin Smoak watched his home run fly out of Detroit's Comerica Park earlier this summer, he never could have predicted the happy journey that baseball would take.

MIAMI — If only peace at the plate came to Justin Smoak as easily is it had in his other life pursuits, perhaps the ascent to baseball stardom would have come earlier.

Justin Smoak hit a grand slam in the eighth inning — his second home run of the day — to power the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-4 win over the New York Yankees on Sunday. After Josh Donaldson was ...

The Toronto Blue Jays have exercised their $8-million US club option on first baseman Justin Smoak and have declined the $5.5-million club option on infielder Yangervis Solarte.

Smoak was at his best in Toronto from 2017-18, when he slashed .256/.353/.495 with 63 home runs and a 128 wRC+ across 1,231 trips to the plate.

Smoak is one of Toronto’s biggest threats to leave the yard, and his strong combination of thump and on-base percentage — he has a .353 OBP with 156 walks since the beginning of 2017 — is ...

Toronto Blue Jays' Justin Smoak is congratulated in the dugout after his two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in Detroit.

First baseman Justin Smoak agreed to a two-year contract extension with the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon with a club option for the 2019 season. The move comes ahead of a potentially busy off ...