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.

In his first five years in the Majors, Rance Mulliniks saw limited action, three with California and two with Kansas City.  A trade to Toronto was just what Mulliniks needed, and for most of the 1980s, he was the main Third Baseman, often in platoons against right-handed pitching.

With the Blue Jays, the versatile Mulliniks had at least five years where he accrued 100 Hits and 10 Home Runs, batting over .300 in three of those years.  He was a competent defensive player, and though he would never be a megastar, he would not be a liability either.  

As Third Baseman Kelly Gruber emerged, Mulliniks’ time decreased, though his injuries and age grew.  Although he barely played that year, he was a member of Toronto's 1992 World Series-winning team.   Mulliniks retired after, totaling 843 Hits with a .280 Batting Average.

Plucked from the Cleveland Indians in the 1983 Rule 5 Draft, Third Baseman Kelly Gruber would work his way up the ranks to become a starter in 1987.

Beloved by the women of Toronto, Gruber had his breakout in 1988, with his first 150-Hit year, with 16 Home Runs and a .278 Batting Average.  He slightly improved his stats in 1989 (18 HR,.290) and was named to the AL All-Star Team.  This bled into Gruber's best year, where he had career-highs in Home Runs (31), RBIs (118), and OPS (.842), and was named a Silver Slugger and Gold Glove winner, as well as adding a second All-Star.  Gruber was fourth in MVP voting, and it appeared that he would get even better, but that was not the case.

Gruber began to deal with injuries afterward and was unable to build on his best year.  He was still the starting Third Baseman on Toronto's 1992 World Series Championship Team, but that would be his swansong as a Blue Jay, with the club trading him to the Angels after the season.

Gruber had an even 800 Hits with the Jays, 114 as Home Runs.