The 2019 season is supposed to be all about rebuilding and sticking to the “process”, at least as far as we’ve repeatedly heard from Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro this winter.
The Blue Jays’ front office has preached patience in the early stages of a rebuild, and while there have been potential opportunities on the free agent market this winter, the plan has been around looking at the big picture, and building a winner from the ground up. That’s an understandable strategy when you consider where the Blue Jays sit in the vaunted AL East these days, but it’s also a tough pill for some people to swallow, including fans, and their own players like Marcus Stroman.