I haven’t wrote much about the Blue Jays lately, I just haven’t had the chance to get down to see them though I hope to change that after next weekend. But they are playing and playing often, but not often playing well. It’s been win a few, lose a few lately and today it was lose big, 10-0 to Philadelphia big.

The Jays now sit with a 41 wins, 35 loss record which if given at the start of the season they might well have taken actually. It’s not all bad, they sit 1.5 games back on the New York Yankees but 5.5 games back on the Red Sox. Given that only the team that wins your division and the best runner up throughout the entire league qualifies for the playoffs, it seems like it will be tough for the Jays to do anything. They are without doubt in the toughest division in baseball having to overcome the mega rich Yankees and Red Sox. In fact the Jays .539 win average (the measure by which Baseball standings are made) would have them leading two of the three divisions in the National League, if they played there, and less than two games out of leading the other two divisions in the American League. They are stuck were they are right now.

Still, they have to beat what is put in front of them and they have been doing a solid job of it so far (except for this afternoon). In the Wild Card standings (the standings for each league that exclude the leaders of the divisions and the winner of which joins the division winners in the playoffs) the Jays sit 3rd out of 11 American League teams just 1.5 games back of the Yankees and a playoff birth.

But they are only 76 games through a 162 game season (86 remaining) so there is a lot to play and with the temperature really starting to heat up here in Toronto there is a lot to watch also.

MLB Standings as of 27 June ‘09

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