The simplest way to ease into a new baseball season, and a new blog, is to use the month of Spring Training to evaluate the year ahead for all thirty teams in MLB. So each day for the next month I will take a quick look at one club and it's outlook for the upcoming season.
As there are plenty of projections, probable rosters, and scouting reports readily available throughout the web I will limit my take on each club to a brief synopsis of their overall expectations. However, I will also take the time to find one player on each team who is ready to make a surprising impact for their team this year. Superstars like Albert Pujols don't qualify, as we already know that he is going to put up outstanding numbers. Instead I am looking for young players ready to break out, like Posey and Heyward last year, veterans that are healthy and ready to produce again, ala Scott Rolen, or just all out surprises like Jose Bautista. Often times it is the players that surprise us, and maybe themselves, that catapult their teams to unexpected success or at the very least make watching baseball a lot more interesting.
First team up: The Toronto Blue Jays.
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