Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the Blue Jays’ GM, Ross Atkins, loves the word “flexibility”, and applying it to roster building, and pretty much every media interview he gives.
It’s become a word that many Blue Jays fans were starting to loathe, mostly because it felt like it was being used as an excuse to bow out on expensive free agents, or to make significant roster improvements in general. However, after an off-season that’s already had the Blue Jays sign Hyun-Jin Ryu, Tanner Roark, Shun Yamaguchi, and trade for Chase Anderson, the resentment toward the front office has certainly lessened.