The Blue Jays keep bouncing Ernie Clement around the diamond. His bat is paying for every move.

With the season wrapped earlier this week, the splits on Toronto's most-used fill-in are hard to ignore. He played second base, third base and shortstop in 2026, and his production swung with every assignment.

At second, he carried an 88 wRC+ and a .677 OPS. That's close to the .685 he posted in 2025, his best season.

Then the moves started. His OPS dropped to .569 at third base and .581 at shortstop.

Why does that matter so much? Because Clement has quietly become an everyday player, logging 437 games over the last three seasons.

Only Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has played more for Toronto in that span, with 459. George Springer sits behind them at 411.

Guerrero doesn't have to swap gloves every other week, though. Clement has also played first base and left field since 2024, piling up a team-high 3,595 defensive innings across five positions.

Kazuma Okamoto's rookie glove complicates Toronto's infield plan

And the glove travels well. Among Jays with at least 1,000 innings since 2024, only Alejandro Kirk, Daulton Varsho and Andrés Giménez rank ahead of him in Fielding Run Value.

Third base is where he's been best, at +8 FRV since 2024. Okamoto owns that spot, and his rookie season ended at -2 FRV over 1,228 innings there.

That number won't force a change tomorrow. But it's the kind of detail a front office notices when a proven third baseman spends his summer filling holes elsewhere.

Second base is the realistic home. He's been +4 FRV there, and pairing him with Giménez would give Toronto one of the sturdier middle infields around.

The real failure here is roster construction. The Jays used their best utility man as a patch kit for a thin bench, and his offence absorbed the damage.

Think of the office worker who knows how to fix the printer. Pretty soon he spends half his day fixing printers and the actual job slides.

Toronto needs a true utility infielder with a similar skill set to soak up those moves. Isiah Kiner-Falefa was the only other Jay to cover four positions in that span.

Find that player, and Clement finally gets to settle in at second. That assumes Ross Atkins still sees him as the starter there, and he hasn't said so yet.