Before tonights Toronto Blue Jays game at the Rogers Centre, when the American
League East leaders host last years National League pennant winners, the St.
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anniversary of the opening of the SkyDome. Jays legends Jimmy Key and Ernie
Whitt, members of playoff and World Series-winning teams of the past, will be on
hand for the festivities to look back at what was the beginning of the Jays
halcyon years. The return of these former stars comes at an apt time. For fans
of the Blue Jays, its starting to feel a lot like those glory days again.
Heading into Fridays game, the Jays sit at 37-24 with a five-and-a-half-game
lead on the second-place Baltimore Orioles. The last team the Blue Jays held
such a lead atop the division was in 1985, the year of their first-ever AL East
triumph. Its easy to see why theres excitement surrounding this Jays team, but
before everybody goes and books their flights to San Francisco for the World
Series in October, lets step back and take a good look at these Toronto Blue
Jays. Is it time to stop saying "Well, its early" and officially deem them
contenders? Is the 2014 version of the Jays just the 2013 one that was expected
all along, but a year late on arrival? Or will reality catch up with a team that
is currently playing above its station? Friday night marks Game 62, and an even
100 games remain in the regular season. While its not exactly the halfway mark,
its as good a time as any to reflect on the interesting dichotomy of the Jays
season, thus far. Obviously, there have been plenty of key performances from the
top of the roster on down. Mark Buehrle leads the league in wins with 10 and has
a paltry 2.10 ERA. Edwin Encarnacion launched 16 jacks in May and made every
at-bat a must-see event. Jose Bautista is in the midst of an MVP-calibre season.
Melky Cabrera has bounced back from offseason surgery and looks headed to
another All-Star Game. Jose Reyes once again looks like the catalyst he was for
the New York Mets. Picked up from the Milwaukee Brewers scrap heap,
Juan Francisco is one of the five Jays with double-digit home run totals. There
is a lot to like right now. But before the Jays were sweeping the likes of the
Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics and tearing the cover off the baseball with
reckless abandon and going 17-4 over its last 21 games, this team was once a
very average 20-20. Its bullpen is still second-last in the bigs with a 4.62
ERA, having surrendered a league-worst 97 earned runs. Now second in the AL with
19 home runs, Encarnacion couldnt buy a hit in April and had just two homers.
Reyes, Adam Lind and Casey Janssen missed significant time. Brandon Morrow and
Colby Rasmus are down again. There were red flags all over this team not that
long ago, but those have been seemingly swept aside in a tidal wave of
power-hitting and timely pitching. Has this changed your expectations for the
rest of the year? With April and early May indicating that the team was headed
for another year of mediocrity, the fact that the Jays are division-leaders with
the third-best record in baseball in June is quite frankly shocking. But wasnt
this the Toronto Blue Jays team that was promised last season after a winter of
major trades and free agent acquisitions? Maybe this run that the Jays are on
isnt the aberration. Perhaps, last season and the beginning of this year was the
outlier. Regardless of why its happening and how long it will last, the Blue
Jays are currently playing meaningful baseball and its a welcome change for fans
starving for a winner. So with 100 games left in 2014, just who are these
Toronto Blue Jays and what happens from here on out? As always, its Your Call!
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