Having depth is one of the best ways to keep a season from falling apart, and that was very evident for the Toronto Blue Jays last year. They had a talented veteran team going into 2017, but once the injury bug started making it’s weekly attack on the roster, things started going downhill in a hurry.
When the offseason began, Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro made it priority number one to address that lack of depth, especially at the keystone positions. Last season the Blue Jays were only able to get 116 combined games out of Troy Tulowitzki and Devon Travis, which meant that Darwin Barney and Ryan Goins became regular starters.