BlueJays president Mark Shapiro spoke glowingly of Marcus Stroman during a conference call on Tuesday. 'He’s highly competitive, highly athletic and a big part of what we’ve accomplished here over the last four or five years.”
Despite all this, Shapiro says he isn’t paying attention to what Stroman is putting out there on social media.
“I’m not really spending energy and time thinking about that,” Shapiro said of Stroman’s Twitter activity. “If we’re spending time looking at one player’s tweets, then we’re wasting time that we could be spending trying to build a championship organization. So no it honestly doesn’t bother me. That’s just wasted energy thinking about that and spending energy and time on that. Social media is the ultimate challenge for an individual player.
“Do we spend our time worrying ‘are 80 per cent of the tweets positive and 20 per cent negative?‘ Just take care of building a championship team. If we build a championship team, most of those tweets are going to be really positive and that’s all that really matters. Anything that distracts us from doing that is wasted energy.”“I want players to feel free to say what they believe and what they think,” said Shapiro.
“While we’re still young and we’re maybe not there yet, we’re a long way towards being there. It’s not that those comments are said, it’s how they impact within that clubhouse. Not how they impact me. Not how they impact Ross [Atkins]. How they impact in that clubhouse. I feel like players should be free to express their individual feelings and thoughts.”
The Blue Jays have a lot of personalities in their clubhouse, but none, perhaps, as strong as Stroman’s, whom Shapiro appears to be extending an olive branch to.
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