“Whether you like it or not, when you're really good, you kind of become a little bit of a leader or the face of a team,” said Schneider of Guerrero Jr. “He definitely understands that when he talks, people listen. And we've kind of pushed for him to do a little bit more of that this year. And he's done a really good job.”

The point made by Berrios – and one stressed by manager John Schneider as well – is that a player of Guerrero’s calibre can be a big story without being a daily distraction. We’ll see how that theory holds up when the Jays visit loud volume markets such as New York and Boston, but for now the team is trying to mute the noise.