Vladimir Guerrero Jr. joins the Blue Jays today. Toronto's new third baseman is only 20 years (and 41 days) old, but pretty much everyone in baseball except the people in the Blue Jays' front office obsessed with service time manipulation is thinking: Finally!
Last year, Guerrero hit .381/.437/.636 as he played at four levels, from rookie ball to AAA, as a teenager. His AAA stats this month with Buffalo: a 1.141 OPS with only two strikeouts in 34 plate appearances (both whiffs came in the same game).
Kaitlyn McGrath's feature story in The Athletic quotes John Schneider, Guerrero's AA manager:
[T]he plan and the adjustments on every pitch separates him from a lot of other people.