2012 Free Agents and Possible Jays Additions+2012 Projected Lineups

The Blue Jays organization is filled with potential, hope and is only pointed upwards. The Jays are 16GB of a AL East title and 14 games back of the Wild Card. Although most say this was gonna be a horrible year for the Jays as they wouldve finished 10 or 15 under 500, the Jays are only 1 game under .500 with a 66-67 record which is only 3 games back of last year's Jays who were 67-62 going in to Aug.29th Game. The Alex Anthopolous trades have done nothing except bring more and more potential in this team but with a free agent market packed with stars such as Albert Pujols , Prince Fielder, Jose Reyes and Jimmy Rollins, I think there is a high possibility of the Jays acquiring a player to give them a push for next year. Don't expect it to be a MVP candidate player because no one is expecting the Jays to finish better than 7 games back next year. However if a second wild card team is added which is very probable, the Jays might pick up an Ace or #2 pitcher like Mark Buehrle and Aaron Harang and make a trade deadline trade in 2012 boosting their chances of a play off run.

AUG 2011                                                 2012 Opening Day
DH-Edwin Encarnacion                              DH-Eric Thames/ Encarnacion
1B-Adam Lind                                           1B-Adam Lind
2B- Kelly Johnson                                      2B- FA (Maybe Kelly Johnson)
SS- Yunel Escobar                                     SS-Yunel Escobar
3B- Brett Lawrie                                        3B- Brett Lawrie
LF-Eric Thames                                          LF- Travis Snider
CF-Colby Rasmus                                      CF- Colby Rasmus
RF-Jose Bautista                                         RF- Jose Bautista

BOTTOM LINE
The Blue Jays may be filled with young guns but if they are thinking of contending in 2012/2013, a big contract needs to be acquired but with AA as our GM, that is unlikely so look at 6-8 Games Back.