3 former Blue Jays players who should replace John Schneider as manager

Paul Molitor

Paul Molitor may have spent the majority of his MLB career with the Milwaukee Brewers. However, he will always be remembered as being one of the key players that helped the Jays repeat as World Series champions in 1993. After all, he was named MVP during the finals by batting .500 while scoring 10 runs and registering 2 home runs and 8 RBI in six games. Having been though it all on a championship squad with the Jays, Molitor knows exactly how to get things done. If that wasn’t enough, doing it all in a 21-year Hall of Fame career as a player in which he posted an above .300 batting average and more than 1300 RBI showed that he knew what it means to have success in the league.

More importantly, many may have already forgotten that Molitor previously had a four-year stint as an MLB manager with the Minnesota Twins between 2015 to 2018. His biggest achievement came when he took a 103-loss Twins team from 2016 and brought them back into the postseason the very next season. In doing so, they became the first team in MLB history to accomplish the feat. In the end, Molitor was recognized for his tremendous work as he captured the 2017 AL Manager of the Year Award.

Currently, Molitor is a member of the Twins’ front office as a Special Assistant of Baseball Operations since 2021. But if he is ever given the opportunity to get back closer to the game he loved in the capacity of manager, especially with the team that he once won it all with, it could be an opportunity he would not pass up. And likewise, the Jays shouldn’t either if Molitor is gratefully presented to them.