The agony of defeat, over and over again – A Blue Jays elegy

Gregor-Chisholm in The Toronto Star

“The majority of Blue Jays fans have been saying for a while that their team isn’t good enough to contend in the American League East. The much-maligned front office might be about to come to the same conclusion.

Through three months of the regular season, it has become painfully obvious the Jays don’t have the talent to compete. They possess one of the league’s weakest lineups, an injury-riddled bullpen and a starting rotation that can only be expected to do so much.

The Jays have the fourth-worst record and fifth-worst run differential in the AL. After Monday’s lost to the Red Sox, they now trail the third wild card by 7½ games with six teams ahead of them in the standings.

Help is eventually on the way. Bo Bichette is expected to return from the injured list later this week. Relievers Yimi Garcia and Jordan Romano should be back at some point in July. The issue is the Jays struggled when all three were healthy and that’s unlikely to change when they’re off the IL.

This season has turned into a colossal failure, which means change almost certainly has to be coming later this year. The jobs of both general manager Ross Atkins and manager John Schneider appear to be on the line and the only thing that would have guaranteed their safety was a miraculous comeback in the second half.”

There’s more, but for my uninformed baseball experience the entire organization needs a massive re-build. See the full article here. Here’s to happier times but for now, Juno and I have lost interest.