Mike Stanley

A "Yankee Magic" beneficiary was also a potent bat for a forgotten Blue Jays powerhouse

Blue Jays fans may feel continually vexed by the nefarious machinations of the baseball gods: the mid-aughts rise and continued witchcraft of the Tampa Bay Rays, the struggle to keep up with the free agent workings of larger market franchises, the mere existence of the Yankees and Red Sox, Ryan Mountcastle. Perhaps the one that gets my goat the worst is…