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As Rod Barajas prepared to head home for the offseason, his gear packed and ready to go inside Baltimore's Camden Yards after the Blue Jays' final game of 2009, the veteran catcher still had no idea what his immediate future held.

Toronto exited the regular season with a pile of issues to tackle, and the club's free agents were hardly the first item on the Jays' offseason agenda. With a new general manager in Alex Anthopoulos, an announcement expected soon about the hiring of a permanent team president, sorting out the organization's infrastructure has been the first priority.

Anthopoulos has been working at a furious pace, reorganizing sectors of Toronto's front office before evaluating other tasks. Under the circumstances, it made sense that Barajas -- one of the Jays' free agents along with shortstops Marco Scutaro and John McDonald -- had not had any talks with the team about possibly returning for 2010.