The Great Big 2012 Blue Jays Forecast Series, Part 5: Yunel Escobar

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, closing with a set of numbers based on my (usually positive) expectations. Today, we’ll be completing our look at the infield with a few words on shortstop Yunel Escobar. Boy, the folks in Atlanta sure like to cut their infielders loose at opportune times. Yunel Escobar shares a few things in common with his co-middle infielder on the Blue Jays, having both been developed on the same Braves squad, and both cut loose at the prime age of 27. But here they are, having found their way to the Blue Jays after a couple of well-timed trades by GM Alex Anthopoulos. When the team first acquired Escobar for an expendable Alex Gonzalez, we were supposedly getting a shortstop who had suddenly lost all of his gap power after a career-best 2009...