Long time Jays watchers know all too well that the Gold Standard for bullpen failure was established almost forty years ago.
It's Windy Baseball Lore, for a day with no baseball.
In 1982, the Blue Jays had hired Bobby Cox as their new manager. Cox installed platoon arrangements at multiple positions. Three of them took hold and stuck - catcher (Whitt/Martinez), third base (Mulliniks/Iorg), right field (Powell/Barfield). Cox also tried to establish platoons in LF (Woods/Bonnell) and DH (Revering/Nordhagen), with indifferent results. But mostly, Bobby Cox actually expected his team to compete. And compete they did. Leaning very heavily on three young RH starting pitchers (Stieb, Clancy, and Leal), the Blue Jays flirted with competence for the first time in their history.