The Toronto Blue Jays entered yesterday with six players who are arbitration-eligible. Now, there is one less, as the team has agreed to a one-year term with centrefielder Colby Rasmus, a deal worth $2.7 million dollars.
Now, I suppose the post could end at that, but while we’re on the subject, let’s discuss Rasmus a little further.
One of the two players that manager John Farrell named as key pieces to the Blue Jays’ success factor in the upcoming season, Colby Rasmus was someone who was probably pretty glad to see a change of scenery after a tough first few months of 2011 with the Cardinals. And it probably says a lot that Rasmus still has the total confidence of the Blue Jays brass, and most fans, after an disastrous introduction to the AL East – all 140 PAs worth of it, anyway.
So while most of us would probably totally ignore the small sample size of Rasmus’s performance at the plate as a Blue Jay, I think it would be fair to say that our centrefie...
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