Tonight season ticket holders and other invitees will be at the Rogers Centre for the annual state of the franchise event which has been re-branded as "The Leadoff". Expect Mark Shapiro, Ross Atkins and John Gibbons to speak. In previous years the front office would answer some carefully selected and preapproved questions. I expect many of the questions this year will be about whether the Jays will re-sign Jose Bautista and EE. And the answer will be we would like to but it takes two sides to make a deal and we won't break the bank for any player, or words to that effect. I also expect some questions around the roles for Aaron Sanchez and Roberto Osuna this year. I don;t feel confident we will get a straight answer to that.
Dan Shulman is back with the Jays on a part time basis and rumor has it he will be in attendance tonight. Given that he lives here it wouldn't be hard other than Dan's college basketball schedule.
There should also be some discussion around yesterdays announcement of dirt cut-outs for the RC.
If you were invited, and some readers on Da Box will be there, what would you ask Shapiro or Atkins?
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