The Braves' 515 wins under Anthopoulos' direction stand as the 3rd most in baseball since 2018, as do their 24 postseason victories. What could have been in Toronto?
Blue Jays’ VP of baseball strategy, James Click, is waiting in the wings should ownership and team president Mark Shapiro decide to go in a different direction baseball operations wise.
They have looked up and down the lineup and what they have seen is the Orioles and Rays in particular have better, mostly younger, more athletic players on both sides of the ball at catcher, first base, shortstop, third base and left field. They see in Aaron Judge and Clarke Schmidt the only two homegrown players of consequence on this team and wonder why the Yankee.