Blue Jays’ John Schneider candid on ‘productive’ meeting with Tucker

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider had nothing to hide when discussing the tour star free agent Kyle Tucker took of the team’s player development complex in Dunedin, Fla.

Tucker, born and raised in nearby Tampa, Fla., visited the Blue Jays state-of-the-art facility on Dec. 3, and Toronto has been rumoured as a potential landing spot for the 28-year-old. He is widely considered to be the top free-agent position player on the market.

Schneider was candid when discussing the meeting with Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae on Tuesday.

“We sat upstairs for about an hour, an hour-and-a-half, talked through kind of where the organization is, where the organization is heading, both from a team, roster-building standpoint, from an ownership standpoint, and he talked baseball,” said the Blue Jays skippe