TORONTO — - If you are a high school player watching the drip-drip-drip exodus of Canadians atop the Blue Jays mast head on BlueJays.com there might be reason to worry.
Gone from a year ago under chairman Edward Rogers’ name are president Paul Beeston, senior vice president of business operations Stephen Brooks and general manager Alex Anthopoulos.
So what chance do such events as the highly popular Tournament 12, bringing players from coast to coast to the Rogers Centre, the cross-Canada clinics and the Blue Jays Academy, have of surviving?
Beeston and Brooks were big-time supporters of amateur ball from Baseball Canada to heavy involvement with the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the grass roots level, while Anthopoulos got his start scouting Canada at the world juniors in Sherbrooke in 2002 for the Montreal Expos.