If you had told me a couple months ago that Devon Travis would absent from the Blue Jays’ roster in the middle of May, I would have assumed he’d suffered another injury. That wasn’t the case for the Blue Jays’ second baseman, as a healthy start was still a pretty rough one, resulting in an eventual demotion to Triple-A Buffalo to get things on track.
The results weren’t exactly there on paper, but there were some encouraging signs more recently. Overall he hit just .210 while in Buffalo, sporting a .509 OPS to boot. He did have hits in eight straight games before his call-up though, so perhaps the scouting and coaching staffs were more encouraged than the overall numbers show.