Toronto’s only option is to get the best available players on the market and accept that whatever you currently have won’t last, or start working on the ‘next year’ speech now
“Things are going to change for us,” the Blue Jays pitcher said. “This team is too good to lose as much as we have. … I know it’s going to turn around.”A lot of pitchers at a lot of times have said things like that in a Jays uniform. In this particular instance, it was Marco Estrada. He said that just about on this date – May 29 – in the sainted Toronto baseball year of 2015.
But the player wasn’t the point. What made an impression was that a Toronto sports club had done something to avoid another season to nowhere. The Jays were the first in a town full of losers toThat was electrifying. It didn’t fully work out in the end. But for a good few months, the city pulsated with newfound purpose. If things aren’t going your way, it is possible to radically alter your approach – the Jays had just proved it.
But doomed in the sense of inevitable obliteration. Everyone on this team looks like a man on the edge of something, and it isn’t an eight-game win streak. This season is more likely to end in a brawl at a players-only meeting than in a playoff game. The players talk like workers at the U.S. embassy who’ve just heard that helicopter shuttles are being drastically reduced in frequency.
Toronto went 6-4 against teams as bad or worse than them. That’s a yay. They also managed to lose ground in the divisional and wild-card races. That’s a nay.The first is the familiar path taken by Toronto teams who were smart enough to get the parking concession. That is the road of nothing. Ditto Gausman, Daulton Varsho, Chris Bassitt, George Springer, et al. They will all either age out or move on.
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