The Blue Jays are ready for the race to the honors

It’s a week since the team’s training camp started in Dunedin, Florida, and we’re getting the message no clearer: the Blue Jays are serious about their pursuit of a first place in the World Series since 1993.

The ascension of construction team à claiming the title complete set zu Toronto. Vladimir Guerrero fils and Bo Bichette were ranked among the star players of the baseball major and the direction well chosen to surround the cordons of the stock market for more than a year.

Since 2021, the Blue Jays’ chief of staff has in effect awarded three of the four most lucrative contracts of its history. George Springer has 150 M $, then José Berríos and Kevin Gausman have 131 M $ and 115 M $ respectively. Only Vernon Wells, of the Blue Jays veterans, can be willing to sign a contract that is also impressive in Toronto. It had initialed a contract extension of September and $ 126 million in 2006.

The Jays have also exchanged some of their best hopes of recovery to make the acquisition of established players like Matt Chapman no later than last week.

And if the words World Series are not evoked in public at the Blue Jays, the players are not too gentle to say that they want to dominate the major baseball. Guerrero announced his retirement last Thursday: That’s what happened last year, it was the comic strip, and this season, I believe you’re watching the movie!

[La direction] has done all that she said she was ready to do to show off the players in the dressing room she wore in them, to surround herself with the players she was capable of helping to be betteravait aussi dit Springer un peu plus tôt.

The Toronto baseball team has won 91 games in 2021, including the record of 90 wins for the seventh time in its history. This one was not at all sufficient to access the eliminated series, since it was done by the Red Sox of Boston at the very end, but it validated the Blue Jays project. Despite the fact that they disputed the majority of their matches in the United States and lost some of us for the sake of a doubtful relief, the Torontoers proved their value and demonstrated that it was worth the pain of crossing in eux.

A revamped rotation

No facet of the formation of the Blue Jays has changed more since the beginning of the team’s ascent in 2020 than the rotation of launchers. Korean artist Hyun-jin Ryu is today the only one to have played for Toronto before last season.

Hormis Ryu, manager Charlie Montoyo misses out on José Berríos, Kevin Gausman, Alek Manoah and Yusei Kikuchi, has signed a contract last week, for the 2022 season. . .

This arsenal of launchers obviously reminds us that in 2021 when Gausman and Kikuchi took the place of Robbie Ray and Steven Matz, Venus was found in other parts of the city for more lucrative entities. Moreover, given the success that the leading launchers have procured with the Blue Jays last year, it is better to have good ideas in the Toronto camp.

Is there a gaucher in the room?

The Blue Jays are not perfect on paper. To the chapel of their defaults, op account their maigre group of scammers gauchers.

In the pre-match, only the second player but Cavan Biggio and the receiver Reese McGuire are gauchers. Among the volleyball players, none such as George Springer, Teoscar Hernandez, Lourdes Gurriel fils and Randal Grichuk were left unattended, so that Charlie Montoyo could present a formation composed exclusively of right-wing strikers during a match this season.

This does not risk causing the loss of the Blue Jays, but it can certainly be advantageous for a team to count on a variety of strikers this allows especially to destabilize in a sense the adverse launcher. This explains among others why the names of Michael Conforto, an autonomous player, and José Ramírez, of the Cleveland Guardians, were recently read to the Blue Jays in the rumor machine. They are all two gauchers and excellent strikers of surcroit.