The Blue Jays have renewed Mark Shapiro’s contract for five years
That’s more than enough time to win a World Series or two
Blue Jays season—and our next shot at the World Series—is still months away, but some news out of Jays headquarters today will tide us over: the team has announced that president and CEO Mark Shapiro’s contract has been renewed for five years.
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The extension follows the Jays’ first World Series appearance in 32 years this past fall, which Vladdy et al. narrowly lost in a valiant game seven we are still recovering from.
“The opportunity to lead the Blue Jays organization over the past 10 years has been incredibly fulfilling,” Shapiro said in a media release. “Together we have built an organization with people who care deeply about baseball and take immense pride in being Canada’s team. I am grateful and honoured to be able to continue that work.”
Our victory parade is coming next year. We can feel it.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
