Blue Jays’ front office shows again its ability to act quickly

It’s kind of ironic in hindsight that the Jays last GM, Alex Anthopolous, was often given the sobriquet “the Ninja” by the media, given how our current regime acts just as, or more, quickly and unexpectedly as Anthopolous did.

Let’s be clear: this is not a disparagement whatsoever. In fact it’s just the opposite: more earned praise to be piled on to Shapiro, Atkins, Cherington, LaCava, et. al.

After weeks of conjecture from us and the rest of the media regarding “the left field situation”, the club made a swift, neat and tidy move by acquiring Chris Coghlan a couple of days after his release from the Phillies earlier this week.

The addition of Coghlan coupled with the release of Melvin Upton…