Jose Bautista

But no one expected, like, none of the projection systems or anything like that thought they'd be good.

So that would be quite the American League playoff picture.

It won't finish that way.

The Jays are only a game out.

The Mariners are only a game and a half out.

Rangers are only a game and a half out.

But, man, like we said, it's a...

It's an odd one, and yeah, apparently 52 games is not enough for things to, for water to find its level anywhere except the American League East, I guess.

No, the only thing, I guess, the only moment where it was like that is they lost five of six to Tampa over the course of 10 days, but that was sandwiched around winning a series against the Angels, who, congratulations, finally swept the team yesterday.

Reed Detmers.

Yeah, and I guess that

on one hand like the injuries are real and your your roster is a little older and you played until November 1st last year so there are some reasons for the injury you knew taking on Shane Bieber would carry some risk and and so on down the chain but I do wonder for you how much that when we're trying to size up these teams like the Red Sox don't really have that as a reason to the same degree the Orioles don't really like everyone has injuries but that's more of a

across the board under performance where, so when you're sizing this up and looking at the next 110 games, you know, look, the Jays aren't getting imminently healthy.

Maybe they get Nathan Lucas back today.

Maybe Vlad and Cease hit the IL.

We'll find out around four o'clock.

How much does that color your willingness to be like, yeah, I think the Jays are one of the teams that will turn it around?

Here's a little tip for you as far as preseason predictions go.

Also host a basketball show so that you're not on your baseball show when predictions time comes and you can either not own your mistakes or just lie about what you predicted.

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