Now he’s been sent packing in exchange for another bucket of maybes as the last everyday link to those two seasons of playoff baseball in Toronto
Kevin Pillar was quintessential Toronto. He was never the biggest or the fastest, the most talented or most gifted.He was Superman without a cape, diving through the air with the greatest of ease, the late draft pick who came from nowhere and crashed into walls and fences and ivy bushes just to make an unlikely catch. He was the kid who played through whatever pain he was experiencing — complaining was something others did.
The winning came quickly here with the Blue Jays and ended quickly, and now another of the remnants of better times — another of our memories — taken from us at a time when it should be. On Tuesday morning, he called Pillar. It wasn’t an easy call to make. You can wonder about Pillar the big-league player, about his offensive limitations, about his diminishing defence, about him being over 30, about him being a veteran on a team mostly made up of kids, about what all the new-aged statistics say about him.Atkins called him a “consummate professional.
— Toronto Blue Jays April 2, 2019After calling Pillar to tell him he’d been traded, Atkins did an unusual thing. He called Smoak to inform him of what went down. Pillar was a rare home-grown talent who belied the odds. The pennant winner he toiled for had players brought in from elsewhere to play catcher, first base, shortstop, third base and left and right field. He and Travis were home-grown among non-pitchers.
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