Where the Jays Stand – Third Base

The Major League Baseball season is officially over (congrats to the Cards and the retiring-on-top Tony LaRussa), so I don’t have to feel as awkward about addressing off-season positional needs for the Jays while baseball’s top prize is being contested. With that, we take a look at the hot corner (nerdy baseball aside: although it seems like I skipped over shortstop, I was actually following the proper scoring format in which second base is ‘4’, third is ‘5’ and short is ‘6’), where the Jays hope to have found a long-term solution with the emergence of Brett Lawrie. The 2011 Guy(s) Starter: Brett Lawrie Back-Ups: Edwin Encarnacion, Mark Teahen, Jose Bautista, Jayson Nix Waiting in the Wings: Nobody How Did The Jays Fare? You couldn’t have asked for much more from the dawn of the Brett Lawrie era. He led all rookies in OBP (.373), slugging (.580) and OPS (.953) and played the game with an infectious enthusiasm that brought a mid-season jolt into the Jays’ clubhouse. When his average ...