Arden Zwelling

and then you go all the way down and you know, we're talking three wildcard spots here.

The second favorite in the wildcard race per fan graphs, playoff odds right now is Texas at 46.4.

And then you've got like the athletics in Kansas city at 39 and Boston's at 31 and Cleveland's at 31 and Minnesota's at 26 and the blue Jays are at 31 and Baltimore is a 31.

Like there's just so many teams clumped in there.

Nobody is separated.

So, uh,

I think it's helpful for the Blue Jays that they don't have to climb this enormous mountain from here on forward to be a wildcard team and that the bar to reach the postseason in the American League is likely to be lower this year unless several teams go on prolific runs from here on out.

So I think it's actually helpful to the Blue Jays that much of the rest of the American League has been somewhat mid.

American League East but hey you get a wild card who knows what can happen yeah I think that there's it's easy to see an alternate reality where the Red Sox didn't weren't such a disaster and where the Orioles were better than they are right now four games under 500 and the Blue Jays are like really looking up in the American League East but you know as it stands right now I mean they them and the Orioles are essentially in a tie for third place

The Orioles are 16 and 20.

The Blue Jays are 16 and 21.

So the Blue Jays are like a half came back of them for third place in the AL East.

Like everyone else has been bad as well.

Outside of the Rays and the Yankees, the athletics have the like third best record.

in the American League and they're 18 and 17 so there's still like a very real opportunity for the Blue Jays to turn things around if the third how silver is this lining uh turns out to be uh an impactful one Ben how silver is this lining uh Addison Barger

on the verge of returning alejandro kirk ramping up baseball activity george springer already back atop the blue jays lineup how silver is lining that the blue jays are over the next two three weeks likely to add back some of these core pieces that they have been missing

Yeah.

Is silver good or is silver bad?

No one knows.

That's the fun of the game.