I don't think Jays management has any plans at all on moving on from Montoyo. My thoughts echo what most here think of him (not much), but I'm sure behind the scenes there's some managing up which Jays upper management is fine with keeping him in. If he has any development credit some can be attributed to developing his batters (if I'm being fair).
As for pitching this year, again if I'm being fair, that's on Shapiro and Atkins. I don't think the batting pieces were supposed to come together all at once so well. Shapiro and Atkins somewhat get a pass because the pitching wasn't supposed to be that bad, and in this year where pitchers are dropping like flies across the league, they can't come up with anything from anywhere without giving up a large payment in exchange. So that simply leaves this as a play it out season in hopes that they'll throw money around big time in the off-season. It's unfortunate Semien won't get to the playoffs as he's been amazing as a vet through putting it all together, but the Jays management can't trade for someone if the price is the kitchen sink. This off-season will be everything as there's no excuse as it'll only be a matter of money.
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