Alex Anthopoulos is moving quickly to put his stamp on the organization. Today the Jays announced a number of changes which included relieving Dick Scott and Jon Lalonde of their present duties. Scott leaves the organization while Lalonde takes on new responsibilities.
The first press release states:
The TORONTO BLUE JAYS have made the following changes to their Player Development Department which will operate under the direction of TONY LaCAVA; CHARLIE WILSON has been appointed Director, Minor League Operations and DOUG DAVIS has been appointed Minor League Field Coordinator while DICK SCOTT and MIKE BASSO have been relieved of their duties.
This release suggests that Tony LaCava is taking over for Dick Scott and he will run the farm system. Charlie Wilson and Doug Davis increase their responsibilities under Scott.
The TORONTO BLUE JAYS have made the following changes to their scouting department; ANDREW TINNISH has been appointed Director Amateur Scouting, PERRY MINASIAN has been appointed Director of Professional Scouting, JON LALONDE has been named Professional Scout and ROB DUCEY has been relieved of his duties.
Lalonde moves from amateur scouting director to be a professional scout. Andrew Tinnish who was in charge of professional scouting is now in charge of amateur scouting.
These moves can be made quickly because Anthopoulos has been working with all these people over the last several years. Dick Scott was a friend of JP and his departure based on that is not a surprise. In addition the last Blue Jay season ended in some controversy with the firing of several hitting coaches. Scott has had mixed results over the last few years, the Jays have done a very good job with pitching development, in thanks to Dane Johnson and his pitching coaches. With hitters some of the high draft picks have played well but the Jays system has been generally weak in hitting recently.
It will be interesting to see what changes LaCava might make with the on-field staff, like Anthopoulos he has been around for years so he knows the personnel.
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