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TORONTO – When Mark Shapiro was asked what he wants in a spring-training facility, he did not sound like he was talking about Dunedin, Fla.

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That’s where the Blue Jays have spent February and March each year since their founding in 1977. But the layout and amenities in Dunedin are well below the standards enjoyed by many big-league clubs. Shapiro, the club’s new president and CEO, is keenly aware of that.

As Cleveland’s general manager, he was intimately involved in moving that team to a new spring facility in Goodyear, Ariz., in 2009 after 16 years in Winter Haven, Fla. So he knows what he wants, and what a team needs.

“Spring training is one of the most important resources in building a championship culture,” Shapiro said after his introductory news conference on Monday. “It needs to be a state-of-the-art facility that provides a culture capable of rehabbing, training (and) developing players in a cutting-edge environment that provides a competitive advantage. So we’ll hope to do that, hopefully in Dunedin.”