“I’ve got no hard feelings. Even as a member of the San Francisco Giants I want what’s best for this organization.' Kevin Pillar is grateful for the memories with the BlueJays (bnicholsonsmith)
“Definitely,” he said. “You’d think when that window is open you’d throw all your chips in and do whatever it takes to win that ultimate prize, sacrifice a couple years of not having a competitive team because having that window is extremely difficult.
In some ways, the Giants are in a similar situation. Like the Blue Jays, they made the playoffs as a wild-card team in 2016 before faltering in 2017 and 2018. With Farhan Zaidi in place as the newly hired president of baseball operations, the Giants now seem poised to embark on a rebuild of their own.
At some point, Pillar hopes to go a step further than the 2015-16 Blue Jays could and win baseball’s ‘ultimate prize,’ the World Series. Right now, the Blue Jays are a long way from those heights. But Pillar continues rooting for them from afar, and who knows. In the back of his mind, there’s a chance he’ll be back someday.
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