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Blue Jays: There are plenty of reasons to bring Ryan Tepera back in 2020

Assuming that Justin Smoak signs somewhere else and the Blue Jays non-tender Devon Travis this winter as expected, Ryan Tepera will be the only player left from the 2015 team that broke a more than two-decade long playoff drought.

That’s assuming that the front office brings him back, and that’s not exactly a guarantee after a 2019 season that was mostly lost to injury. Tepera finished the year with a 4.98 ERA in 23 appearances, throwing 21.1 innings and posting a WHIP of 1.292. He missed the majority of the season because of an elbow impingement that forced him to have a surgery, but thankfully was able to make it back for 11 appearances in September before the end of the campaign.