Regular season baseball is just eight days away now, and we’re starting to see teams around the league shape up their rosters in advance of Opening Day. The Blue Jays did a little more trimming to their roster on Tuesday, optioning Anthony Alford, Reese McGuire, and others to Triple-A to begin to the 2019 campaign.
There are a lot of young players still in camp, but there is still a contingent of veterans as well. One of the oldest players these days is Justin Smoak, who is hardly at the end of his career at 32, but admitted earlier this offseason that it felt weird to be one of the “old guys” on the team.