With his 203rd home run on Monday night in San Francisco, Edwin Encarnacion tied Joe Carter on the Blue Jays’ all-time home run list and moved within 20 of Vernon Wells for third place.
Originally thrown in to a trade between the Blue Jays and Cincinnati Red in 2009 for Scott Rolen, though, these heights were never expected from Encarnacion.
Encarnacion was earning 2.45 million that season and due for another raise in arbitration. He was coming off a season of 26 home runs in Cincinnati, but with a 1.6 WAR that season, his current (at that time) and future value didn’t hold too great of an impact.