Buffalo Boy's Blog
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Going for Broke
Im going to come right out and say it......The Toronto Blue Jays will make the playoffs this year. They won 85 games last year and with Aaron Hill and Adam Lind returning to form, a break out season for Brandon Morrow and Travis Snider, arguably the strongest bullpen in the AL East with four potential closers and their new manager John Farrell who has all the tools o f a great manager, this team will at worst finish as the AL wild card this season.
My reasoning is simple. The Yankees and Rays both took steps backward, the Jays added depth that they haven't had over the last 15 years in guys like Octavio Dotel, John Rausch, Frank Francisco in the bullpen and Corey Patterson and Scott Posednik on the bench. Everyone knows this team is young and up and coming but its the vetarans they added in the offseason that will put this team over the top.
The Yankees who typically corner the free agent market didn't and they got older and developed more questions than answers for themselves. The Rays lost without getting equal talent to replace what they lost. Carl Crawford is a huge hole that they filled basically with Manny Ramirez....have fun with that.
So, mark my words, on March 13th, I have predicted the Toronto Blue Jays will make the playoffs this year for the first time since 1993.
If you had seen them Sunday. The energy at the dome was intense 35k people fans cheering people actually paying attention. Down to the wire game. It doesn't get much better than that. I even found I drank less as I was too into the game.
And that was a loss, I could just imagine if they keep winning, they are definitely an exciting team even going back to last year, but add that speed to the power, John Farrell has a nice mix in there right now, I cant count these guys out of the AL East race, as long as they stay healthy