Edwin Encarnacion is the Key to the Toronto Blue Jays World Series Trip

The Toronto Blue Jays have completely changed their roster this offseason and appear ready to stake their claim to the AL East after the recent successes of everyone else in the division.  The Blue Jays last truly phenomenal ballclub was the 1994 team that got cut short by the strike.  Baseball fans in Toronto felt scorned by the American sport and attendance suffered as the Blue Jays began to feel some of the constraints of life in the same division as the Yankees and Red Sox.  But in 2013, the Blue Jays look like they will be relevant again and their fans are excited. I’m here to tell you (but mostly the Jays fans) that they have good reason to be excited.  However, putting that much stock in a lineup featuring Edwin Encarnacion in the cleanup spot scares me. The Blue Jays have not struggled to score runs in each of the past two years ranking 7th out of 14 AL teams in runs scored in 2012 and 5th in that same statistic in 2011 and have been held back largely by inconsistencies out ...