There was no honeymoon period for Mark Shapiro, nor perhaps should there have been.
The circumstances of his arrival were difficult and dubious and even more so when juxtaposed with the departure of Alex Anthopoulos and the seemingly never-leaving Paul Beeston.
All that changes now with the contracts of Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, Michael Saunders, Brett Cecil and R.A. Dickey about to expire and five other players of less significance free to go elsewhere also and this two-year run built on power already powering out.
Now we get to know who Shapiro is, how he operates, what his mindset is, what he sounds like when he’s not dropping text book phrases.