It will come as a surprise to almost no one when I say that the Toronto Blue Jays will not be a great baseball team in 2019. An exciting team? Yes, of course. The roster will include, at some point, super prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and a host of other revered prospects. But successful record-wise? Almost definitely not.
With that said, the team received, and will continue to receive, some decent contributions from players that one wouldn’t expect to be relevant, in terms of WAR, or wins above replacement.
In predicting the Blue Jays 2019 WAR leaders, the names Justin Smoak, Lourdes Gurriel Jr.