The Toronto Blue Jays officially open spring training when pitchers and catchers report Saturday and the atmosphere in Dunedin, Fla., is going to be completely different than it was last year.
General manager J.P. Ricciardi has made it clear that the 2004 camp was far too leisurely, with too many players going through the motions, secure in their roles with little or no heat behind them.
"I think we're pretty balanced and we have some guys in the lineup who can do some things. I think we can surprise some people with our offence," said Gibbons. "We have good overall team speed, we're going to open it up a bit because we're not expecting to be a big home-run hitting team, we're going to do some hitting and running, stealing a bit more, just try to make things happen.
"We don't know how good we're going to be, but I feel good inside about this group."
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The team now was room to buy some players next year
and this year looks like a development year.