When Edward Rogers made a rare public appearance — on the day he signed Vladimir Guerrero to the richest contract in Blue Jays history — he anticipated that one question would certainly come his way.

It never did.

In all the hoopla and hype over the Guerrero $500-million signing nobody, myself included, asked the obvious question to the normally unavailable Rogers.

What are your plans for team president Mark Shapiro in the future?

Shapiro’s contract is up. At the time of the Guerrero celebration, the Jays were 9-7, coming off a last place 74-win season, not exactly looking like the best team in baseball. Shapiro had done nice work overspending some of Rogers’ money to renovate what used to be SkyDome.

His work with the ball club itself could be deemed somewhere between incomplete and

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