The playoff yardsticks were moved on the Blue Jays Thursday as clubs around them loaded up with new additions. With the team returning home to Toronto, the response from general manager Ross Atkins and crew will be telling, writes ShiDavidi.
A 13-1 romp that secured a four-game split at Fenway Park won’t be the tipping point on how far the front office will go before Friday’s 4 p.m. ET trade deadline.
But even with the club’s playoff odds sitting at 23.2 per cent at the beginning of the day, according to FanGraphs, opportunities to win are scarce and not giving this group the best opportunity to claim a wild card and see what happens is a waste of a roster objectively better than its 51-48 record.
The Rays, who earlier added Nelson Cruz, continued to cleverly position themselves for the present and the future by turning Castillo into Chargois and prospect Austin Shenton, an infielder with a .941 OPS across two minor-league seasons, recently promoted to double-A. In what’s been a good market for sellers, that’s a smart, measured buy. The Blue Jays can make a few more like it, think Michael Pineda/Jon Gray, or even up the ante a little for someone like Kyle Gibson, and see if their run differential eventually equals out to more wins.
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