Greg Zaun is gone. My favourite Toronto Blue Jay signed a free agent deal with Baltimore, the team that drafted him eons ago. Last season he lost his job to Rod Barajas and was therefore xpendable. I first heard about Zaun in an article about players who sit on the bench full time and yet collect a salary and share the glory of being champions. Zaun was cast as the epitome for a third string catcher has nothing to do. He sure proved them wrong. With the Jays he averaged a mediocre 255 but he is a good defensive catcher which makes the number better than average and more importantly he is a switch hitter and often comes through in the clutch. Add his experience handling catchers (he is 37) and Zaun has proved the author wrong.
photo from Trent Woods
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