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Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins hopes spending the off-season not far from the team’s player development complex in Dunedin, Fla., will help unlock what slugging star Vlad Guerrero Jr. has been missing over parts of the previous two seasons.
“I believe it will turn again, but I can’t rest on my faith. I have to find solutions to better support him and to better support our players and make sure that’s not happening again.” “What we have done in the past has worked,” Atkins said. “It didn’t not work this year. We didn’t get the job done. We weren’t able to find a solution. Two things in offence — having an approach and having a plan. In my opinion, they’re too very different things.”
They stuck with him during a sub-standard season in 2022 and patiently waited for him to emerge as an offensive leader in the now-vanquished 2023 season. “He is a focused individual,” Atkins said in defence of Guerrero. “He’s a very good player. He’s made huge contributions for us and he’s going to continue to.”
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