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The Toronto Blue Jays have dealt with a boatload of injuries. One of those lineup changes was perhaps more interesting than ever on Tuesday night, as slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was hitting leadoff.
Guerrero, who has been one of the better hitters in Major League Baseball throughout his career, isn't having the season he's been looking for, blasting just three home runs so far.
Moving him up to the leadoff spot could make things different for him, for better or worse. There's a possibility that he'll see better pitches to hit early in games, especially with better hitters around him.
There's also a chance he won't have anyone on base, and doing so was a bad idea. There's an argument on both sides, and it's up to everyone else to decide whether it's right or wrong.
If one thing's for certain, though, it sounds like there aren't any worries about how others feel, and the organization is doing what they think is best. Guerrero seems to be on board with it.
“We’re just trying to shake things up for him a little bit and we’ll see how it goes,” manager John Schneider said, per MLB.com.
“It was a pretty short conversation,” Schneider said. “I’ve been talking to him about it for a while. I feel like I’ve been talking about him in the two hole for five years. We were talking about this a couple of weeks ago and he said, ‘I’ll hit wherever.’ It was probably a three-minute conversation last night.”
Guerrero has never struck me as a guy who wants to deal with any drama. If Schneider goes up to him and tells him that he needs to do something, he's going to do it. I bet that they have conversations about other things, but the superstar has trust in his skipper, and that's a very good sign.
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