Hindsight is 20/20, and the Blue Jays have been on the beneficial end of a few trades and roster transactions that have really worked out surprisingly well in their favour. Take for instance, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion‘s emergence while in Toronto that virtually no one saw coming before it happened.
There are times when it works the other way too though, and Blue Jays fans know that all too well. For example, we’ve been re-living the R.A. Dickey–Noah Syndergaard trade for several years now, and the reality is that you don’t always know how a player’s career is going to work out, and sometimes it takes a change of scenery before they really flourish.