Found January 28, 2012 on Rant Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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With spring training officially just under a month away, we continue with 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. Taking things (presumably) off the field, today’s subject of focus is the Blue Jays DH, Edwin Encarnacion. An aside, if I may: although nowhere near as wordy as the forecasts I’m doing currently, what predictions I made about last year’s Blue Jays roster turned out to be somewhat inaccurate almost completely, totally dead wrong. Snider having a break-out season? Nope. Hill, Lind having bounce back seasons? Try again. How about J-Bau coming down to earth? Not even close. Edwin Encarnacion though, helped me salvage things little bit; not because I had closely predicted the numbers that he ended up producing, but because I was set on this: as long as Edwin Encarnacion doesn...
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