Rod Barajas celebrates his 51st birthday today.
Barajas spent two seasons with the Blue Jays from 2008 to 2009, during a 14-year major league career.
In 2008, the Jays signed Barajas as a backup to Gregg Zaun . Around that time, three significant events occurred:
Zaun missed about three weeks with an injury.
The Jays fired John Gibbons and hired Cito Gaston .
Barajas hit a little hot streak.
Like many catchers, Barajas was a streaky hitter. In May 2008, he hit .370/.424/.630—numbers that exceeded his usual performance, but the timing was ideal. With a new manager in Cito Gaston, first impressions mattered, and Barajas seized his opportunity by…
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