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. Today, we look at the 3rd new Blue Jays starting center fielder in the last 3 seasons, Colby Rasmus.
It’s easy to understand the enthusiasm that came with last July’s acquisition of Colby Rasmus. It’d been the type of trade that had, more or less, defined the methodology of the Anthopoulos era: one of identifying low-cost opportunities to acquire high-ceiling assets at premium positions. Considering that at the beginning of the season, the very idea of the Blue Jays acquiring Rasmus would have been scoffed at as an unfathomable pipe dream, that the team was able to get him for (basically) Frasor, Dotel, Zach Stewart, Marc Rzepsczynski, and Corey-freaking-Patterson was tr...
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