With attendance down across the league, the Toronto Blue Jays are smack dab in the middle of a rebuild. With the next few years being critical to how the organization will move forward, the Jays organization are really not set up for success with the moves they are making.
Let’s just start off by saying that I truly am a huge Toronto Blue Jays fan. I have been too many games both in Toronto and on the road, and I will bleed blue for many more years.
I will probably be buried with my signed Blue Jays jersey and my Lourdes Gurriel Jr. bobblehead.
But I am also man enough to admit that the Toronto Blue Jays are one of the worst run organizations in the MLB, and it stems from the ownership company in Rogers and funnels down all the way to the Blue Jays front office.
With a team in the midst of a rebuild, the Blue Jays are in an awkward mind set because they are just a few years removed from a playoff contending team, where the organizations top prospect talent was traded away to win it all (even though they didn’t).
In 2015, the front office was maneuvered and flipped around when long time general manager Alex Anthopolous left for the L.A. Dodgers and president Paul Beeston formally retired.
Ownership decided they really liked how the Cleveland Indians were run and decided to bring in everyone in their organization up North by making Mark Shaprio president and Ross Atkins general manager.
Now I know I am being a negative bunny, but it is just because the team is having a rough and tumble 2019 and I am a bit paranoid that the Blue Jays front office will somehow find a way to screw up the next few years, throwing the team into a permanent rebuild.
Even though I currently sound like an old man ranting under a bridge, I feel like I have some good points and think we should explore them some more. Here are my top three.