The fans of the Toronto Blue Jays had better ready themselves for a culture change and the shock that comes with it.
For many, Mark Shapiro is already public baseball enemy number one on his new job. Gone are the apparent “drunken sailor” ways of former GM Alex Anthopoulos, who had no problem throwing gobs of Rogers Cable money into his lineup. Gone, too, are the farm depleting trades that amount for big gains in the short-term. It worked this year, obviously but we Tribe fans know that success is often a fleeting comet.
Both the Indians and Jays were deafeningly quiet at the recent Winter Meetings.