With Ryu introduction, Jays enjoy a potential turning point. ScottyMitchTSN has more:
donned a Toronto Blue Jays jersey with his customary No. 99 stitched onto the back, Scott Boras, as usual, provided the quip of the day when it was noted that the number has some significance in this country.
When Boras, the most powerful agent in sports, believes it and has two months of behind-the-scenes evidence to build his case — plus $80 million shreds of green evidence — everyone else should believe it, too. There were rumblings early this off-season that the Blue Jays had been relentlessly aggressive behind the scenes in the opening days of free agency, checking in on everything from the top tier to the bottom tiers, and at multiple positions.
“Toronto was engaged from the very get-go of free agency and there’s a lot of great younger players on this team, so that’s why I came to Toronto,” Ryu said Friday. “He’s masterful as a pitcher,” Atkins said. “The more we dug, the more we learned, the more we liked him. Our sights were on him early and we kept them on him. He’s an exceptional athlete that can get outs in all quadrants of the zone with four different pitches and he can do it in different ways, to different hitters.”
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