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TUCSON, Ariz. — He hasn’t completely rehearsed his initial address to the Blue Jays, but Charlie Montoyo knows precisely what the tone of his welcome message will be in his first days as a big-league manager.

For one thing, the speech will be short when Montoyo gathers the group at Dunedin later this month for spring training and begins his stint as the 13th manager in club history.

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“I’ll talk to them about our values,” Montoyo said during a lengthy chat at his off-season home in suburban Tucson. “We are going to compete hard every day. We are not going to be afraid to take chances. We’re not going to be afraid to be different.

“It if takes a four-man outfield or if it takes an opener, whatever it takes to win games, we’re going to do. That will be the message and it will be quick. I know how players are. If you talk forever, they’ll tune you out.”

He may be a first-time manager in the major leagues, but Montoyo has vast managerial experience in the minors, working at every level in the Tampa Bay Rays system. Above all, the 53-year-old native of Puerto Rico is known as a teacher and developer of young talent — by definition, his role through most of his coaching career.