Toronto Blue Jays

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Toronto Blue Jaysfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Toronto Blue Jays has passed down, steadiest first. The DH room is their most stable — 8 holders across 44 years, a new one every 5.5 on average.

1. DH8 holders · 7 handoffs · 1983–2026 · one every 5.5y
   Cliff Johnson1983–1986→Paul Molitor1993–1995→Brad Fullmer2000–2001→Josh Phelps2000–2004→Edwin Encarnación2009–2016→Kendrys Morales2017–2018→Randal Grichuk2018–2021→George Springer2021–2026
2. 2B9 holders · 8 handoffs · 1980–2026 · one every 5.2y
   Dámaso García1980–1986→Nelson Liriano1987–1990→Roberto Alomar1991–1995→Homer Bush1999–2002→Orlando Hudson2002–2005→Aaron Hill2005–2011→Devon Travis2015–2018→Marcus Semien2021→Ernie Clement2023–2026
3. SS9 holders · 8 handoffs · 1979–2025 · one every 5.2y
   Alfredo Griffin1979–1993→Tony Fernández1983–2001→Manuel Lee1985–1992→Alex Gonzalez1994–2001→Chris Woodward1999–2011→Marco Scutaro2008–2009→Yunel Escobar2010–2012→José Reyes2013–2015→Bo Bichette2019–2025
4. C10 holders · 9 handoffs · 1977–2026 · one every 5y
   Ernie Whitt1977–1989→Buck Martinez1981–1986→Greg Myers1987–2005→Pat Borders1988–1999→Darrin Fletcher1998–2002→Gregg Zaun2004–2008→J.P. Arencibia2010–2013→Russell Martin2015–2018→Danny Jansen2018–2024→Alejandro Kirk2020–2026
5. 1B11 holders · 10 handoffs · 1978–2026 · one every 4.5y
   John Mayberry Sr.1978–1982→Willie Upshaw1978–1987→Rick Leach1984–1988→Fred McGriff1986–1990→John Olerud1989–1996→Carlos Delgado1993–2004→Lyle Overbay2006–2010→Adam Lind2006–2014→Justin Smoak2015–2019→Cavan Biggio2019–2024→Vladimir Guerrero Jr.2019–2026
6. 3B11 holders · 10 handoffs · 1977–2023 · one every 4.3y
   Roy Howell1977–1980→Garth Iorg1978–1987→Rance Mulliniks1982–1992→Kelly Gruber1984–1992→Ed Sprague Jr.1991–1998→Tony Batista1999–2001→Eric Hinske2002–2006→Troy Glaus2006–2007→Brett Lawrie2011–2014→Josh Donaldson2015–2018→Matt Chapman2022–2023

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1977–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.