The Toronto Blue Jays and catching prospects. The two things haven’t gone together so well in recent memory.
Selected in the ninth round by the Blue Jays all the way back in 2008, A.J. Jimenez was once viewed as Toronto’s “next” catcher. Shades of Travis d’Arnaud, J.P. Arencibia, and Max Pentecost, who for a wide variety of reasons, don’t exactly appear poised to catch the first pitch from Marcus Stroman this April in Tampa Bay.
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