By the time that April had come to a close last season, I’m sure there were plenty of fans wondering why the Blue Jays ever traded for Randal Grichuk. However, if you stuck it out with the Jays throughout the second half of the campaign, you probably saw a lot of reasons why.
After starting the year with a horrific .106/.208/.223 slash line in his first 26 games as a Blue Jay, his season came to a merciful pause when he was injured diving for a ball in right field. By the time he returned in June, Grichuk was a completely different player, and a lot closer to the guy that Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro thought they were getting from the St.