You can hear Buck Martinez and Pat Tabler already.
“That right there is a ball player,” they’ll say about Darrell Ceciliani. And a “ball player”, whatever that comically vague baseball term has come to mean, is the perfect description.
Acquired from the New York Mets in early February for a player to be named later or cash, Ceciliani was recommended to the Blue Jays by former general manager J.P. Ricciardi, who now works as a special assistant to Mets GM Sandy Alderson.
The 25-year-old is also impressing manager John Gibbons, who rolled out some baseball buzz-terms of his own when describing him to Steve Buffery of the National Post.