The Blue Jays continued the current trend in baseball when they hired current manager Charlie Montoyo from the innovative Tampa Bay Rays as a first-year manager with an understanding and appreciation for analytics.
They continued in that direction with some of their offseason hires that may have gone unnoticed when they brought on Demetre Kokoris and Cory Popham to their minor league staff.
Kokoris and Popham both have ties to Driveline Baseball, a data-driven baseball player development just outside Seattle that has seen some of the MLB’s top talent come through their doors.