One of the few Canadians to play for a Canadian team, Paul Quantrill's hometown was London, Ontario, two hours away from Toronto.  The Pitcher played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin and then professionally for the Red Sox and Phillies before the latter traded him to Toronto after the 1995 Season.

Quantrill's first year with the Blue Jays was dismal, going 5-14 with a 5.43 ERA and going back and forth as a starter and reliever.  Going into 1997, Quantrill was assigned to the bullpen, and it was a good fit for him, as he kept his ERA low (1.94 in 1997 and 2.59 in 1998), and in 2001, he was an All-Star Middle Reliver, leading the AL in Games Pitched (80) with an 11-2 record.  

Quantrill was traded to Los Angeles after his 2001 All-Star year, leaving the Jays with 386 appearances.  He is also a part of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

Kevin Pillar was the best player at California State University, where he set a Division II school hit streak record with 54 Games.  As good as he was, Pillar still played in Division II and dropped to the 32^nd Round of the 2011 Draft, but Pillar defied the odds and first made the Blue Jays in only two years. 

Pillar entered the 2015 season as Toronto's starting Centerfielder, and he batted .278 with 163 Hits and a Wilson Platinum Glove.  The Blue Jays were contenders, with Pillar providing the occasional clutch hit.  Toronto reached the ALCS in 2015 and did so again in 2016, with a 144 Hit/.266 campaign. 

He never played another playoff game in Toronto but had two more respectable years, though his OBP was not great.  The Jays shipped him off to San Francisco early in the 2019 season, leaving Pillar with 641 Hits as a Blue Jay.

A 1991 First Round Pick in 1991, Shawn Green first made it to the Majors as a September call-up in the 1993 World Series winning season.  Green did not play in the post-season and was in the minors for most of 1994, but he was the starting Rightfielder going into 1995, a position he would keep for the rest of the decades.

Green was a middle-of-the-road starter at RF for the Blue Jays for a few years but had an elevated stat line in 1998, belting 35 Home Runs with 1000 RBIs.  That was the type of season that the Blue Jays were hoping for, but he took it to another level in 1999.

Green’s 1999 campaign was the best of his life, compiling career-highs in Home Runs (42) and OPS (.972) while obtaining an All-Star, a Gold Glove, and Silver Slugger.  The Outfielder was also ninth for the American League MVP.  This was a star-making, yea, but Toronto was not a contender and traded Green to the Dodgers after this year.

With Toronto, Green had 119 Home Runs and 718 Hits and batted .286.

When the Toronto Blue Jays won the 1992 World Series, their Designated Hitter was future Hall of Famer Dave Winfield.  They would upgrade that for 1993 with another eventual Cooperstown resident, Paul Molitor.

Molitor had more left in the tank than Winfield did, and in his first year as a Blue Jay, he had his best season in years.  Batting .332, Molitor led the American League in Hits (211), won the Silver Slugger (he had a career-high 22 Home Runs), and was second in MVP voting.  The Blue Jays repeated as World Series Champions, with Molitor winning the World Series MVP from a .458/2 HR/7 RBI performance.  

Toronto faltered in 1994, but Molitor did not, batting .341 with a seventh All-Star in tow.  His third and final season in Toronto saw him slip to .270, but he was still one of the best Designated Hitters in the business.  A native of Minnesota, Molitor opted to finish his career with the Twins, where he played for three years before retiring.

Molitor’s stay with the Blue Jays was not long, but it was impactful, with 508 Hits, a .315 Batting Average, and one incredible post-season.  He entered Cooperstown as a Brewer, but he won a ring as a Blue Jay.