TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays have parted ways with franchise icon Pat Hentgen, fellow special assistant Paul Quantrill and triple-A manager Ken Huckaby, according to multiple industry sources.
The reasons for the changes weren’t immediately clear.
Hentgen, the club’s first homegrown 20-game winner and a beloved part of the 1992-93 World Series winning teams, was in his eighth season as a special assistant to the club, having also served as the Blue Jays’ bullpen coach in 2011 and ’13.
Quantrill spent six seasons with the Blue Jays, earning an all-star nod in 2001, and joined the team as a consultant in 2013 before serving as a special assistant.
Huckaby was promoted to manager at triple-A Buffalo this past off-season after spending the past couple of years as the organization’s catching coordinator, and ran the 2020 alternate training site in Rochester, N.Y., which shut down this week.
He’d been a part of the club’s player development since 2013.
