Baseball is a strange sport, in that it’s extremely hard to evaluate players, especially prospects. Some look like guaranteed superstars and turn out to be anything but, and every now and then you get lucky and find an All-Star calibre player where many others didn’t see one.
It’s happened for the Blue Jays a few times over the last decade or so, most notably with Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion, who were both late-bloomers that didn’t really become elite until their late 20’s. And if you remember the 2015 season very well at all, you’ll remember another player by the name of Chris Colabello that made a similarly unexpected leap to stardom that year at the age of 31.