Jays’ Gibbons revisits low-ball era of MLB draft negotiations

The New York Mets picked an eclectic crop in the 1980 amateur draft, including Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, former GM J.P. Ricciardi, slugger Darryl Strawberry and one of my colleagues, Mark Zwolinski. Gibbons recalls he wasn’t a master of money ball at the time, Richard Griffin writes.

By Richard Griffin