CLEVELAND: Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro admits he “pulls for people.”
After digesting everything there is to read about his team’s game the previous night, he said he next checks the Indians’ score.
After spending 24 years with the Indians, working his way up from unpaid intern to general manager to president, he will never abandon the close relationships he built, the friendships he formed.
Those ties brought back a flood of emotions as Shapiro returned to Cleveland as the Blue Jays and Indians square off in the American League Championship Series, which opens Friday in Progressive Field.