Coming off the worst season of his MLB career, Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has taken one big step toward improving his performance next year.
The six-time All-Star recently underwent laser eye surgery, according to a social media post by the Laser Eye Center of Miami.
“Looking forward to an MVP year and lots of home runs with his new vision,” the Instagram post said about the procedure performed by Dr. Gabriel Lazcano.
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Guerrero, 27, and the Blue Jays certainly hope correcting his vision puts him on the path toward regaining his MVP-caliber form.
Since finishing second in American League MVP balloting in 2021 after hitting 48 homers with 121 RBI and a slash average of .311/.401/.601, Guerrero’s numbers haven’t approached that level while steadily declining. Perhaps that season was the outlier in his career, but Guerrero had consistently averaged 28 homers during the four years since then.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hits his first homer at Rogers Centre this season, following George Springer’s solo shot B5, came in home game No. 75 for the Blue Jays.
It was his ninth overall this year. pic.twitter.com/ISUxJ6Y9NM
— Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) September 13, 2026
However, his performance cratered this season with just 9 home runs, 25 doubles, 57 RBI and a slash line of .260/.332/.356 in 144 games. That was his fewest number of games since the COVID-shortened campaign of 2020, with concussion and lower back tightness limiting him toward the end of the season.
Guerrero also didn’t hit a home run in his home ballpark of Rogers Centre until mid-September, a stunning development in a stadium ranked among the top 10 most home run-friendly ballparks in MLB, according to Park Factors.
The Blue Jays slugger didn’t engender much sympathy for his on-field struggles while responding to criticism that he was performing far below the expectations set by his 14-year, $500 million contract extension.
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“The money they gave me wasn’t for what I’m going to do. It was for what I already did,” Guerrero said in an interview with Veronica Batista of Noticias Telemicro (via MLB.com).
He later apologized for those remarks, prompted by his father, Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero, who told him that he made a mistake.
Guerrero has previously dealt with vision issues, wearing contact lenses while playing and eyeglasses off the field, according to The Athletic. But the deep drop in his numbers, he was obviously motivated to address the problem. (Whether or not the Blue Jays encouraged this as well is not certain.)