TORONTO — In the end, the Blue Jays’ World Series hopes were lost when the bats went quiet against Cleveland pitching. Gibbons has been a lighting rod throughout his second tenure as Blue Jays skipper, one that started in 2013. A story-line from the day spring training opened in Dunedin eight months ago, stars Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista could have played their last game in Blue Jays colours in Wednesday’s whimper. “We’ve got to get some things done this off-season, we’ve got to have a good off-season, but I don’t expect huge differences. “You need to build a championship team — it’s not about just individual players,” Shapiro said.

Source: National Post October 20, 2016 00:56 UTC