By now, you’ve surely heard. Former Blue Jays minor league pitching coordinator and deeply mustachioed Phillies catcher Sal Fasano has lost his job. Toronto let him, as well as several other prominent figures from their development staff, go in a franchise-rattling shake-up from which it is unknown if they will ever recover.
Fasano served in many roles with the Blue Jays; he was their catcher for 16 games in 2007, their roving catching instructor after his 11-year, nine-team playing career ended in 2008, and managed their Double-A franchise in New Hampshire to a league championship in 2011, as the Phillies, undoubtedly inspired by his success, were putting together the best record in franchise history.