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.

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