Even though I no longer live near Toronto, my formative baseball years were spent at Rogers Centre far more than Yankee Stadium. The Yankees have always been my favorite team, but proximity dictates that certain Blue Jays were always going to draw my attention. The late Roy Halladay was one example, and of course the dynamic trio of Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion was another.
Edwin, especially, was a guy that demanded your attention. A third baseman so bad he was given the E5 nickname, a player that couldn’t hit in one of the best hitters’ parks in baseball in Cincinati became a star in Toronto because he stopped playing third, started walking and hitting the ball in the air to the pull side.