The Jays have a MASSIVE decision on their hands...

This was inevitable as following what has been a spring training filled with ups and downs for various players, the Jays are now forced into an impossible decision surrounding a fan favorite player and following what has been an absolutely disappointing spring training to say the least thus far. Some new reports have dropped revealing some very interesting information surrounding the future of this guy and it was inevitable that we're going to have this conversation. We're going to write down exactly who I'm talking about and discuss what it means going forward, but not only that, we do have a ton of other Jays updates. as we are approaching opening day now 17-ish a couple weeks away from the beginning two and a half of the regular season but before we get into it if you're part of the percentage you aren't subscribed to the channel very quick reminder hit the subscribe button you guys have been an absolute beast of support it truly means the world to me folks let's dive right into it we have a lot to go over today and an article dropped and i've been talking about this for a while and i think it's time now to kind of discuss it let's spring training play out a little bit but you can see this here blue jays could afford to deal away struggling outfielder in position log jam toronto has a solid outfield and after a rough spring campaign they might keep their options open for a trade now i'm not going to talk about a specific trade in this video i don't want to talk about the player and what his future looks like with the team this is of course davis schneider because if you've been watching my channel for a while a couple months ago i had kiki matheson on maybe a month ago time flies and i you know it's hard to keep track of time with how crazy the spring training is but kiki matheson said keep an eye out for davis schneider in spring training if he doesn't perform he might be on the outside looking in especially with how Eloy Jimenez is performing and folks all of a sudden now you have articles like this dropping talking about how every team has a weakness the Jays of course already got away or gave away Joey Loperfito let him go and now Loperfito might not be the only player in the outfield worth dealing away and a player like Davis Schneider would be valued with another organization now last year he hit for 237 folks I don't know if any of you guys have noticed this he's hitting .058 in spring training he is one for 19 one for 19 and i was doing some research and of course i've been watching this spring training games and you know i've been focusing on the other players you know josh Kasovich has been shining a little bit you know addison berger rj streckman of the world and i googled i was like okay what's you know davis schneider stats and AI shout out to Gemini i said one for 19 and i said let me double check this because that seems a little bit crazy it is true he's one for 19 in spring training all of a sudden now there's a real world where they have to start questioning his future with the team but also whether or not he's going to make it or he's going to start in triple a this year and of course with Eloy Jimenez playing as good as he has been or did in spring training now of course is with he's at the at the World Baseball Classic they are going to have some tough decisions to make and again Kiki Matheson brought it to light feel free to check that video out if after you've watched this one in its entirety it's from a little bit ago just type in you know MLB insider and it'll come up on my channel it is uh or exclusive MLB insider that's the title it is a wild point now because there's a very real chance where he is not like he's not performing at all in spring training yes it's just spring training but this is a guy that needs to perform in spring training you have guys like Eloy Jimenez Josh Casovich who's playing really well RJ Schreck yes Schneider had a great year last year but it was within a very sheltered role and I don't know now you know with the outfield log jam if you want to call it that I mean at left field you have Jesus Sanchez you have Nathan Lucas you have Miles Straw Schneider still projected to be 16% if they want a lefty masher which Davis Schneider is not by the way he is not that even though people think he is Eloy Jimenez is probably a better option you look at second base where he's expected to play a lot do they prefer maybe Josh Casovich or someone else to come up or maybe they keep Schneider around to play him at second base but you have other guys who can play second base and you can see Casovich is projected for 1% you have Eloy Jimenez you can come up and play a little bit you have I'm sure some other guys as well when you move things around all of a sudden and I'm not saying that David Schneider definitely going to be gone but it was inevitable that we were going to be having this conversation right because and it's inevitable that i think at some point he may be on the way out now that's not confirmed yet he's he obviously has a great eye he's going to benefit from the challenge system last year you can see here put up a 1.3 WAR like it was fine a bit below average defensively he really improved though in left field it's rough man and i didn't realize how bad it was and it's a serious problem at this point that he is hitting only 0.53 now you might be saying Nick George Springer hit just as bad last spring and ultimately was fantastic i agree with that but when you're competing for a spot you have to perform fairly well in these situations now they're probably going to give him the benefit of the doubt they're probably going to start Eloy Jimenez in Triple-A and see what happens but it's a question that needs to be talked about now and it's at a point where they may and i'm not saying they're going to trade him but if you have an opportunity to trade him for maybe a bullpen piece or something like that i personally would be seriously considering it because you still have Nathan Lucas who's obviously a left-handed bat now the one thing going for Schneider is that you look at the left fielders Hazuki Sanchez lefty Nathan Lucas lefty right you don't have the Schneider is the only one who's a righty there but at the same time you can move people around you can throw Springer in left field if you want to like there's a lot of ways to go about it and again replacing him with Eloy Jimenez seems like an obvious choice if they want to go that route David Schneider is a bit of a better defender than Eloy Jimenez, Eloy Jimenez is a better hitter at least I'd assume he will be this upcoming year though he had a couple bad years dealing with injuries I don't know folks let me know down below do you want to see David Schneider gone do you think that this is I don't like any of us want to see him gone are you concerned about the one the one for 19, one for 19 in eight games in spring training crazy stat didn't realize it was that bad and he's been a guy I've been talking about for a while I'm telling you guys to keep an eye out on specifically in spring because it like doesn't really matter for a lot of players it kind of does for Mr, uh for Mr Davis Schneider because you look at some of the things that are happening elsewhere and let's have a look now I mean you see Berger mashing in spring training so Vladdy hit his first WBC home run there yesterday the day before but I want to dive back into this again and this was a lineup projection by Mitch Bannon now I'm gonna have my full lineup projection coming this week but you can look at it here and this is of course against righties and it kind of dives into how you know with Jesus Sanchez around let's maximize Berger's versatility all these different things but you look at the way that the team is currently constructed and I'm not saying that uh you know I'm not saying that Schneider should play against righties Schneider had a better OPS against righties by a long shot than he did lefties last year so if you're looking at righty lineups neither of these have Davis Schneider in them and it's because you have Jesús Sánchez who mashes righties Varsho who mashes righties Clement who mashes righties like all these guys and if you want to talk about it from a lefty perspective sure you could throw Davis Schneider in left field he hasn't shown a consistent ability to hit better against lefties you're better off with Eloy Jimenez or even somebody else like maybe an RJ Schreck maybe somebody in the pipeline who can come up and actually mash the the role for Davis is slowly but surely becoming a little bit more bleak and he kind of needs to get good quickly and if he turns spring training around sure we can have this conversation again and we can revisit it and i'll eat my words but it's uh it's an interesting one because you have other guys performing really well and i don't usually take a ton of stock into these spring training performances but man oh man there was going to be a time where this happened and it's a good point this article makes they got rid of Joey Loperfido because of the fact that i mean ultimately right they needed to kind of uh you know trim trim the edges a little bit but some team would probably value Davis Schneider and he's still a very very solid player don't get it wrong 800 ops last year essentially two years ago i mean his babe ruth here a thousand rookie year a thousand ops he has the the you know the intangibles and the tangibles can he put it together are the Jays the team to do it i don't know but it was inevitable that we were going to be having this conversation at some point here and let me know down below what your thoughts are on this folks it's a little bit saddening that Mr. Schneider is potentially going to be on the way out here i'm not saying a trade is going to happen right now but you have to start making serious considerations that he might not make the opening day roster if Eloy Jimenez gets hot again when he returns to the WBC but folks i don't wrap it up let me know down below your thoughts are do you think i'm you know talking out of my butt do you think oh Nick they're definitely going to keep you know Davis Schneider They're not going to give Eloy a chance. It might not even be Eloy. Keegan Matheson, MLB insider for the Jays, said on my channel there could be even somebody else in the prospect pool that replaces Davis.