J.P. Ricciardi never worried about the five-year commitment to B.J. Ryan.

"Why not?" said the Blue Jays' general manager. "We now have a closer for five years. That's something we didn't have in our system. Trevor Hoffman once got five years; I don't think the Padres ever regretted that."

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