Alex Anthopoulos tried to deflect rumors on Thursday that the Toronto Blue Jays are trying to make another big splash in free agency by signing Pablo Sandoval.

The club introduced Russell Martin, who they signed to a five-year, $82 million deal, to the media and the general manager discussed rumors.

"We're not close to anything," Anthopoulos said. "We don't have any offers out to anybody, we're not being 'aggressive' with anybody. Our focus was on Martin and that just took a lot of time and energy. We didn't have five balls in the air, it was sole singular focus on getting him done."

The Boston Globe reported on Wednesday night that Toronto was close to making an offer to Sandoval, who is being targeted by the Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres.

"Talk of free agents that we're interested, sure, we've talked to all kinds of guys," Anthopoulos said. "But talk being close, talk of making offers, I find it amazing that there are guys out there that I have never spoken to or met that are reporting we have plans to make an offer. That's news to me.

"I think there's a lot of misinformation out there. The one thing I can unequivocally say, we don't have any offers out there, we don't have any plans in the next 24 hours to make an offer. That can change at any time, but we're just going to regroup right now and move forward with our next steps."