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Expectations are high on Snider and rightfully so. Snider comes into the 2009 season as the 6th best prospect in all of baseball, according to Baseball America's list of rankings. He projects to having very nice power and a solid OBP if he can reduce his strikeout rate. Snider should be able to tear up righty pitching from the get go, but he'll have some growing pains against lefties.

If Wells is healthy, he and Rios are as good as anyone in center and right field, but they need 2006 and 2003 Wells, even his bounce back 2008 with an .839 OPS isn't really good enough.

The biggest underlying problem is that the Jays have so many games scheduled against three teams each capable of winning 100. If they were in the AL West, I actually would like their chances to win it, but they just don't have enough talent to compete in earnest this season, even with an excellent bullpen.