JAYS PLAYOFF TRACKER

[jaysblue]

3 hours ago, SeranthonySantander said:

Oakland should not even be a team.  They are not competitive.   Their claim to fame is being from the ghetto across the bridge from San Francisco?  yea, real impressive, *******s.

And they were the team in that Moneyball movie 😂

[jaysblue]

4 hours ago, Stangstag said:

There’s literally only 5 teams in the AL with a record over .500 right now. 5 out of 15.

Its an extreme outlier year and wouldn’t expect this jays team to be in contention in any other year.

Even under the old playoff system you’d have a team like the 63-60 Astros winning their division 

Every season is different. It’s definitely surprising how weak the AL has been this year, but it’s not like this happens every season. The balance of power fluctuates from year to year. The NL has been much stronger this season. You’ve got two teams tied for the third Wild Card spot at a .532 winning percentage, which would actually be good enough to lead both the AL Central and AL West right now.

The Jays are pretty fortunate they’re in the AL during a year when the league has been a dumpster fire. If they were in the NL with the exact same record, they’d probably be something like six games back of the final Wild Card instead of right in the middle of the race.

[jaysblue]

On 8/14/2026 at 11:12 AM, BTS said:

The expanded playoff format sucks. Its offensive that a team that has been this s*** all year is in the playoff picture. We used to mock the NHL for this nonsense. 

Under the old playoff format of three division winners plus one Wild Card, Jays fans were complaining about that system back in the 2000s too. With the Yankees and Red Sox routinely dominating the AL East, Toronto basically had no realistic path to the postseason unless they put together an elite season.

The Jays won 86 games in 2003 and 87 games in 2006 yet by this point in those seasons, they were essentially already out of contention and playing meaningless baseball.

That’s why I prefer the expanded playoff format. You can argue six teams per league is too many when the AL is as weak as it is this year, but at least good teams aren’t basically eliminated by August simply because they happen to play in a stacked division. We wouldn't be saying the same about the NL right now, where all 6 teams who make the Postseason are all pretty strong, even the teams battling for the third Wild Card. 

[John_Havok]

17 hours ago, jaysblue said:

Every season is different. It’s definitely surprising how weak the AL has been this year, but it’s not like this happens every season. The balance of power fluctuates from year to year. The NL has been much stronger this season. You’ve got two teams tied for the third Wild Card spot at a .532 winning percentage, which would actually be good enough to lead both the AL Central and AL West right now.

The Jays are pretty fortunate they’re in the AL during a year when the league has been a dumpster fire. If they were in the NL with the exact same record, they’d probably be something like six games back of the final Wild Card instead of right in the middle of the race.

It makes some sense that the NL is stronger over the past few years with the Dodgers doing what they're doing. Kinda forces other NL teams to improve themselves to try and keep pace and over the course of 3 or 4 years, the margins start to increase across the board ... unless you're Colorado. 

 

[Laika]

Probables:

• Soriano vs. Martinez
• Scherzer vs. Rasmussen
• Bieber vs. Seymour
• Bullpen vs. Schlittler
• Cease vs. Weathers
• Soriano vs. Warren

[G-Snarls]

Rooting for 15 inning Rays win over the Orioles today in which both teams deplete their whole bullpen 

[Omar]

Jays starters in a short series can be formidable.  Imagine you're the opposing team having to face Cease, Soriano and a rejuvenated Bieber.  

No wants to play this slap hitting dark horse with Vladdy doing his best Undertaker impression come the post season. 

 

 

[G-Snarls]

Parise to the pitching staff 

 

MIA:

 

Yimi Garcia 

Ponce 

Berrios 

Yesavage 

Arighetti 

Corbin 

Taillon 

Francis 

 

And yet somehow the 4 starters still standing and the bullpen have made this resurgence possible with suboptimal contributions from the offense most days 

Kudos bros

 

Offense:

Over the last 17 games the Jays have scored an average of 3.65 runs per game. 

Tied for 23rd best in all of baseball. 

[Omar]

 

 

[hanton]

4 hours ago, G-Snarls said:

Over the last 17 games the Jays have scored an average of 3.65 runs per game 

Tied for 23rd best in all of baseball. 

I wonder how that stands when you add in the payroll factor,  I'm gonna say last.

[G-Snarls]

27 minutes ago, hanton said:

I wonder how that stands when you add in the payroll factor,  I'm gonna say last.

Actually no 

Some big budget teams have been worse than us offensively over the last 17 games 

It's only 17 games of course not a full season 

 

[hanton]

22 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

Actually no 

Some big budget teams have been worse than us offensively over the last 17 games 

It's only 17 games of course not a full season 

 

what is this?

[G-Snarls]

29 minutes ago, hanton said:

what is this?

Number of runs scored by teams over the Jays last 17 game stretch 

I only looked it up to illustrate how is the pitching that's responsible for the resurgence 

[SeranthonySantander]

Ok back to orioles doing oriole things again hopefully.

just to be clear am I not allowed to allude to the rays culture of sex crimes here?  Had a post removed today after I called out Tampa 

[SeranthonySantander]

15 minutes ago, hanton said:

what is this?

Average runs scored this month last 17 games 

 

dodgers also suck now too 

 

[hanton]

I wanted to factor in payroll (from Gemini Pro).  Look at those White Sox

We have the 5th highest payroll and the 29th fewest runs scored (so far)

Here is the raw data for the five highest and five lowest MLB payrolls in 2026 compared to their offensive output so far:

Team	2026 Payroll (Approx.)	Payroll Rank	Runs Scored (Mid-Aug)	Offense Rank
Los Angeles Dodgers	$430 Million	1st	616	4th
New York Mets	$370 Million	2nd	523	22nd
New York Yankees	$336 Million	3rd	551	16th
Philadelphia Phillies	$315 Million	4th	558	15th
Toronto Blue Jays	$307 Million	5th	492	29th
---	---	---	---	---
Chicago White Sox	$116 Million	26th	594	8th
Tampa Bay Rays	$114 Million	27th	559	14th
St. Louis Cardinals	$108 Million	28th	550	17th
Cleveland Guardians	$90 Million	29th	494	28th
Miami Marlins	$83 Million	30th	550	17th

[G-Snarls]

14 minutes ago, SeranthonySantander said:

Ok back to orioles doing oriole things again hopefully.

just to be clear am I not allowed to allude to the rays culture of sex crimes here?  Had a post removed today after I called out Tampa 

It's a slugfest 

And no that really doesn't need to be discussed any further man

[G-Snarls]

Rays pounding out the runs against the Orioles 

[SeranthonySantander]

playoffs might be back on the menu

[G-Snarls]

1 hour ago, SeranthonySantander said:

playoffs might be back on the menu

Yep

Rays win

Jays now only 0.5 games back 

[Masterbather]

Rays barely survived the Orioles. 

Of course they'll show up for us though. They always do. 

In fairness, Orioles can actually score runs, this Toronto team is f***ing awful offensively. 

Let's not get it twisted, this is a lousy Blue Jays team having a bad season being salvaged by an awful American League.

While we'll gladly take the meaningful baseball, this isn't a good team. 

The potential to be a pretty good team still remains, but they are showing fewer signs than ever of offensively doing anything.

[G-Snarls]

10 minutes ago, Masterbather said:

Rays barely survived the Orioles. 

Of course they'll show up for us though. They always do. 

In fairness, Orioles can actually score runs, this Toronto team is f***ing awful offensively. 

Let's not get it twisted, this is a lousy Blue Jays team having a bad season being salvaged by an awful American League.

While we'll gladly take the meaningful baseball, this isn't a good team. 

The potential to be a pretty good team still remains, but they are showing fewer signs than ever of offensively doing anything.

We knew Vladdy was capable of two month slumps

Never did I believe he could suck for an entire SEASON 

[Spanky__99]

We've known this all season, lol. 

 

[SeranthonySantander]

2 hours ago, Masterbather said:

Rays barely survived the Orioles. 

Of course they'll show up for us though. They always do. 

In fairness, Orioles can actually score runs, this Toronto team is f***ing awful offensively. 

Let's not get it twisted, this is a lousy Blue Jays team having a bad season being salvaged by an awful American League.

While we'll gladly take the meaningful baseball, this isn't a good team. 

The potential to be a pretty good team still remains, but they are showing fewer signs than ever of offensively doing anything.

Good thing it’s a year where the dodgers also suck.  Should be a cinch