Right now pretty much everyone is unified in disgust and guys like Max even, can read the room and know that now is not their time to spread sunshine.
However, the split will likely happen again by season end even if the Jays miss the playoffs. It’ll be along the lines of “After June 23, the Jays were the 3rd best team in the AL”. Same kind of thing for players who have an off year, but some sample size to frame it as bad luck/slow start.
This is like 5 years in a row where Jays were supposed to be a Division winner threat, perhaps a little less so this year if you think Baltimore was heavily favored. But still, by May every year it’s clear it’s a pipe dream and we’re going to battle until the end for WC2 or WC3.
Then when we’ve gotten in, it’s just to get swept. Again on the W3 thing, if it wasn’t for that, this FO would be seen as a disaster. Hopefully that’s it if there’s no playoffs.