The AL East has been active leading up to the trade deadline, but one week out the Blue Jays suddenly find themselves in need of another catcher. ShiDavidi looks at how Danny Jansen's injury changes the team's plans.
, who’ll be tasked with the critical job of calling Hyun Jin Ryu’s starts. Inexperience behind the plate was a concern even before Jansen went down but it’s even more of an issue right now.
Stallings, who’ll be arbitration-eligible for the first time this winter, will need to be valued as an everyday catcher to be pried away from the Pirates, who also have some other notable players of interest to the Blue Jays, reliever Richard Rodriguez among them. While adding any of the three would to some degree block the current young trio behind the plate, top prospect Gabriel Moreno increasingly seems like the Blue Jays’ catcher of the future and one of the veterans would help bridge the gap to his arrival and ease his transition.
Kirk was just rounding into form when he was hurt on May 1 and the Blue Jays definitely need him to hit the ground running.
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