Now that Spring Training has actually gotten underway, it’s a little easier to start speculating on who could make the Opening Day roster. A lot could change before the season’s first pitch of course, but for a team unlikely to add much, if anything more in free agency, the roster is starting to take some shape.
One of the big questions for Ross Atkins and the front office this spring will be whether or not Elvis Luciano looks ready to pitch against big league hitters. The 19 year old has never pitched above Rookie-ball before, but he has enough talent that Atkins and company saw fit to take him from the Royals in the Rule 5 draft, and if he doesn’t make the team and stay on the big league roster he’ll have to be offered back to Kansas City,
Normally I wouldn’t think the Blue Jays would push a kid into the big league picture this quickly, especially given the status of their current rebuild.