NASHVILLE - As opening media winter meetings briefings go, it was very guarded and a tad bland.
That’s thinking back to general manager debuts we have witnessed over the years.
Since 1981 at Hollywood, Fla., we saw Murray Cook and Bill Stoneman with the Montreal Expos do their initial rundowns of the proceedings, as well as Gord Ash, J.P. Ricciardi and Alex Anthopoulos with the Blue Jays.
A review of new Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins after the first two days of the 114th winter meetings at the Opryland Hotel puts him behind Ash and Anthopoulos, who had the advantage of moving from assistant GM to GM thereby knowing most of the media.