Pat Gillick is forever in my head. I can still hear him telling me, and anyone else who would listen, to never believe anything you see in spring training or September baseball.
And because it was Gillick talking, the Hall of Fame architect of three World Series winners in Toronto and Philadelphia and playoffs teams in Baltimore and Seattle, including the Mariners team that won a record 116 games, well, you had to pretty much take it seriously.
So here we are in September and the Blue Jays are actually winning some games and Teoscar Hernandez and Richard Urena look like ball players and better yet, they look like athletes, and John Gibbons is gushing over the lefthander Tim Mayza, another bullpen arm, and Carlos Ramirez to name another.