Imagine this if you can, Blue Jays fans. Your team has the incredible good fortune of possessing a flame-throwing, 23-year-old right-hander, considered among the best pitching prospects in the game. The pitcher has excelled at every level, including the upper minors, and checks every box. Yes, there are some concerns about how much of a workload he can handle over the coming season, as he’s never thrown more than 102 innings as a pro, and he lost the entire season before last to injury.



Nonetheless, it’s clear that he could more than hold his own in the major leagues, right now.



The team, however, is coming off a season in which they won 67 games. Despite a productive off-season, featuring one particularly notable high-profile signing, they’re most likely a little too far away from being legitimate contenders to need to worry about placing their top prospect on their opening day roster for purely competitive reasons. Yet at the end of camp, in a...