Ben Nicholson-Smith

And for all the comparisons that I think are fair and inevitable when you talk about a team that was as memorable as the 2025 Jays, what was best about that team was the late part of the season.

So we'll see how close the Blue Jays can get this year to...

just replicating some of that.

And they don't have to win the division.

Of course, best case is you win the division, you get a buy, you avoid that chaos of the wildcard series, which in the Blue Jays history, they have not won a wildcard series.

So certainly not a lot of great memories there, but you can do it.

And if you had Cease and Gosman in a wildcard series, like that would be a totally viable path through to the DS and beyond.

So yeah,

Yeah, the point is they got to start winning and they have three starters in rotation and a lot of their key hitters aren't hitting.

So it's not it's not really the ideal circumstance.

And yet it's still interesting.

It's still compelling.

They still have a shot at it.

So we're going to see if they can do it.

Well, they're going to need so many other pieces to come through the way things are going and so many other players to step up.

And some of that will connect to health.

We've already seen some of that with Pinyongo or Valenzuela.

clearly emerging on the offensive side, Spencer Miles emerging on the pitching side, among others.

But you look at George Springer, a 9.59 OPS a year ago, where the baseball savant page was all red.

This year, it's a 6.32 OPS.