The Blue Jays have signed Eduardo Escobar, Daniel Vogelbach, and Joey Votto to Minor League contracts since pitchers and catchers reported. The moves have blurred the team’s roster projections, but Davis Schneider can see a route to reprising his 2023 star turn.

After all, Spring Training reminds Schneider of the time and place when his baseball future came into focus.

When Schneider arrived for Minor League camp in 2020, he had played only 17 games above Rookie ball. Following his physical examination and testing with the Blue Jays’ medical staff, Schneider was surprised to learn that he needed vision correction.

“I thought I had really good eyesight,” Schneider said recently. “Now I know I don’t.”

Schneider was eager to learn how well he could hit with corrective lenses. The COVID-19 pandemic forced him to wait, but his numbers have been on a steady climb since donning spectacles for the 2021 season. Last year, Schneider crushed Triple-A pitching to the tune of a .969 OPS and made his Major League debut Aug. 4.

You probably know the rest of the story: He socked eight home runs in 35 games, while his eyeglasses became a commercial phenomenon and talisman across Canada.

“I hate contacts -- that’s why I wear glasses,” Schneider said. “I can’t touch my eyes every day. The glasses are the way to go. LASIK, I’ve thought about it, but I don’t really need it right now. Maybe when I’m older and done playing. Right now, I’ll stick with the glasses look.”

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Schneider, 25, doesn’t need to wear them while driving, but they’re valuable in hitting baseballs -- particularly during night games. He’s compared notes about glasses maintenance with teammate Danny Jansen.

“We have a special bond, because we’re the two ‘glasses guys,’” Schneider said. “He was kind of the same way. He got glasses and went off and hit really well in the Minor Leagues. You don’t really know how bad your eyesight is until you get glasses or corrective lenses.”

The Blue Jays’ plans at second base remain opaque, with only two full weeks remaining in the Grapefruit League. Schneider still has a good chance to make the Opening Day roster, despite a .620 OPS and nine strikeouts in 19 at-bats. He leads the Blue Jays with five starts at second base, an indication of how highly the organization values him. Escobar (three), Santiago Espinal (three), Cavan Biggio (two), and Orelvis Martínez (two) also have made multiple starts at the position this spring.

The Blue Jays won’t expect Schneider to sustain the .603 slugging percentage he enjoyed during last year’s call-up, but they will rely on his knowledge of the strike zone. He reached base over 40 percent of the time in the Minors and Majors in 2023 -- helped, he said, by the automated ball-strike (ABS) system at Triple-A.

“I liked it,” Schneider said. “I’m 5-foot-9. The zone is small. It does set pitchers back a little bit. It’s really tight, when it comes to up and down, but as a hitter you love it. You want to have a tight zone.”

Even though the ABS isn’t utilized presently at the Major League level, Schneider’s ability to visualize the strike zone traveled with him to Toronto.

“The ABS helped out a lot -- more than people realize,” Schneider said. “You look at the numbers in Triple-A. The OPS was an .800 average. It jumped up a lot. I think that helped me hone down my zone a lot more, and it helped me in the big leagues ...

“I don’t have to chase pitches outside the zone ... I feel like that’s what hitters are missing sometimes these days: They’re trying to hit everything. Good hitters make sure they can hit the one pitch they like to hit and don’t miss it.”

In 2024, Schneider will benefit from another key component of his success in Buffalo: Matt Hague, the Triple-A hitting coach last season, has been promoted to assistant hitting coach in Toronto.

“He’s been there before,” Schneider said of Hague, who earned callups with the Pirates and Blue Jays during an 11-year pro career. “He knows how to connect with the hitters. He knows a lot about the swing, but he knows how to communicate that with each individual guy. Each guy is different. He’s not one-dimensional. He knows how to talk to each guy separately and get through to them.

“He knows the person really well, more than the hitter. That’s a big thing.”

Schneider responded to his meteoric success with a humble offseason plan. He returned to his hometown of Berlin, N.J., and lived in his parents’ basement while preparing for the ’24 season.

“I live five minutes from the facility where I train,” he said. “I’ve got my dog in my basement. It was perfect. We’ve got the greatest setup there.”

Schneider graduated from Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, N.J., about 14 miles away from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The Blue Jays visit the Phillies on May 7 and 8, a series that is sure to carry special significance for Schneider’s family.

For Schneider himself, another milestone will need to wait until after the All-Star break: The Jays play series against the Angels in consecutive weeks, and Schneider hopes to share the field with Mike Trout, who grew up fewer than 40 miles away in South Jersey.

“He’s my favorite player still,” Schneider said.

Schneider has yet to meet his baseball idol. If his 2024 looks like his 2023, that will change.