With spring training officially just under a month away, I thought now would be a good time to start a series of projections on what the 2012 Toronto Blue Jays might look like. Each day (don’t hold me to this), I will profile a 2012 Blue Jays starter, based on my (usually positive) expectations. Caveat: while this series might turn out to be neither great nor all that big , I can promise you that there will be arbitrary, numbers that I will throw out there at the end of each profile. Hell, I will even try to find something to say about the newest Blue Jay, Nelson Figueroa. To start things off, we’ll take a look at catcher, J.P. Arencibia.
Entering his second season as the Blue Jays #1 catcher, it feels almost as though JP Arencibia is getting a overlooked a bit among Blue Jays banter, what with prospect Travis d’Arnaud being named the 2nd best catcher prospect in the majors by MLB.com, and presumably nipping at the heels of a platoon potentially as soon as the latt...
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Nelson Figueroa,
Mike Napoli,
Jeff Mathis
TEAMS: Toronto Blue Jays, Texas Rangers
TEAMS: Toronto Blue Jays, Texas Rangers
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