And here is where Shapeero has the Jays
It seems like a lot of what-ifs, maybes and who knows.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/blue...ve-pieces-to-deal-if-the-return-is-right.html
I liked these two paragraphs:
The Jays entered last off-season talking about getting younger and more athletic after bowing out to the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 ALCS. But the starting nine position players that saw the most Blue Jays action in 2017 included just two players younger than 30, while the team total of 53 stolen bases demonstrated the lead-footedness of the roster. But Atkins begged to differ when asked about the Jays’ lumbering, middle-aged image.
“We did become younger and athletic,” Atkins said. “Our (minor-league) system went from, objectively, 24th to ninth.”
That Triple-A team, according to the GM, could include the likes of outfielders Anthony Alford, Dalton Pompey, Dwight Smith — “We’ll see with Teoscar Hernandez,” Atkins said — infielders Richard Urena, Lourdes Gurriel and Rowdy Tellez, catchers Dan Jansen and Reese McGuire, and left-handers Ryan Borucki and Tom Pannone.
The potential gems of the system are a little further away: infielders Vladimir Guerrero, Bo Bichette and Logan Warmoth, and right-hander Nate Pearson.
“That’s younger and more athletic,” Atkins said.
With a spin like that Sarah Sanders may lose her job as press secretary.
It’s a revelation to examine the Jays’ farm system and count the number of talented young players that can be viewed as trade inventory. The flurry of trades by former GM Alex Anthopoulos in July, 2015, robbed the upper levels of depth, but there was always the feeling that when the younger prospects developed the farm system would be re-stocked. That has happened.
All that rhetoric about AA draining the team was bullshit. Young talent is a renewable resource and AA would have had more pieces to play with while the big team stayed competitive even with shapeero doing nothing.
It seems like a lot of what-ifs, maybes and who knows.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/blue...ve-pieces-to-deal-if-the-return-is-right.html
I liked these two paragraphs:
The Jays entered last off-season talking about getting younger and more athletic after bowing out to the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 ALCS. But the starting nine position players that saw the most Blue Jays action in 2017 included just two players younger than 30, while the team total of 53 stolen bases demonstrated the lead-footedness of the roster. But Atkins begged to differ when asked about the Jays’ lumbering, middle-aged image.
“We did become younger and athletic,” Atkins said. “Our (minor-league) system went from, objectively, 24th to ninth.”
That Triple-A team, according to the GM, could include the likes of outfielders Anthony Alford, Dalton Pompey, Dwight Smith — “We’ll see with Teoscar Hernandez,” Atkins said — infielders Richard Urena, Lourdes Gurriel and Rowdy Tellez, catchers Dan Jansen and Reese McGuire, and left-handers Ryan Borucki and Tom Pannone.
The potential gems of the system are a little further away: infielders Vladimir Guerrero, Bo Bichette and Logan Warmoth, and right-hander Nate Pearson.
“That’s younger and more athletic,” Atkins said.
With a spin like that Sarah Sanders may lose her job as press secretary.
It’s a revelation to examine the Jays’ farm system and count the number of talented young players that can be viewed as trade inventory. The flurry of trades by former GM Alex Anthopoulos in July, 2015, robbed the upper levels of depth, but there was always the feeling that when the younger prospects developed the farm system would be re-stocked. That has happened.
All that rhetoric about AA draining the team was bullshit. Young talent is a renewable resource and AA would have had more pieces to play with while the big team stayed competitive even with shapeero doing nothing.
