The 2019 season was a successful one for several young Blue Jays, even if it didn’t add up to a lot of wins for the squad. That’s the price of taking on a true rebuild, but thankfully there were plenty of reasons for optimism going forward.
While rookies like Bo Bichette, Cavan Biggio, Reese McGuire and more performed even better than expectations, one Blue Jay rookie fell a little short of the hype that he entered the league with. That doesn’t mean that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was bad last season by any means, but he was far from the potential MVP candidate that some projections systems believed he would be in 2019, even as a rookie.