This opening day was the first for quite a few young players on the Toronto Blue Jays. While he is no stranger to time spent in a Jays uniform, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. lined up on the third base line and heard his name introduced on the loudspeakers for his first MLB opening day. While shaking hands with teammates, I don’t think Gurriel Jr. imagined his season would start as rough as it has.
Lourdes is no stranger to baseball, and comes from a pedigree started by his father in Cuba, and continued by himself and his brother Yulieski Gurriel in the Houston Astros organization.