Travis Snider, who announced his retirement from baseball on Instagram Thursday morning, was supposed to be the Blue Jays’ next great slugger. The next season, Snider broke camp with the big club and started in left field on opening day. Both off Detroit’s Justin Verlander, who would finish third in Cy Young voting that season, as part of a 12-5 Jays win. The Jays stuck with Snider after a rough April in 2010, and it paid off with him hitting .378/.404/.711 in the first half of May. The Jays were very happy to get Lincoln for Snider, a telling sign of how much the still-young outfielder’s value had fallen across the industry.

Source: thestar January 14, 2022 21:33 UTC