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Blue Jays: Looking back on Ross Atkins’ work from the 2017 season

After looking through his 2017 season I found this was probably the quietest year that Atkins had, just some small low key transactions.

In the previous article, I had already talked about the Kendrys Morales signing which happened on November 18, 2016, and I felt was a mistake. I also spoke about the Jose Bautista contract on January 18, 2017, and Edwin Encarnacion signing elsewhere.

I’ll add, although the Blue Jays acquired the first-round pick that landed them Nate Pearson, I think they should have signed Encarnacion. A late first-round pick in baseball has better odds of not working out than they do of working out.