One thing for the Blue Jays to take from the Braves celebrating a World Series championship is how mad they should be about falling one game short of the playoffs. ShiDavidi looks at what the team will have to do to ensure there’s no repeat in 2022.
Obviously that’s easier said than done, and how the Blue Jays go about augmenting a 91-71 club may not be known for months if the collective bargaining agreement expires Dec. 1 without a new deal and a lockout follows.
Speculate away on names – switch-hitting Cleveland third baseman Jose Ramirez will be a regular in the grist, especially since the Blue Jays made a run at him at the deadline – but the clearest ways for them to get more left-handed is at second and third base and in the outfield. To that end, a comment from president and CEO Mark Shapiro is instructive about the team’s thinking: “I'm not a believer that you have to sign anyone back. I'm a believer that you have to get better. And as I sit down with Ross and sit in on our meetings or preparation, there are multiple ways for that to happen. We'll have the resources to do it, both in young talent that we could trade and in payroll. So ...
But it’s worth noting that both Shapiro and Atkins raised the possibility of making trades, the former mentioning prospects and the latter adding that, “sometimes it may take an addition by subtraction.” Behind the plate, Danny Jansen closed out the season looking more like the hitter he was throughout his minor-league career and perhaps that opens a pathway to trading Alejandro Kirk, whom the Pittsburgh Pirates targeted ahead of the 2020 deadline. The rapid progress of top prospect Gabriel Moreno, who is demolishing the Arizona Fall League right now, protects against a subtraction there.
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