I'm a die hard since inception. I'm not as glass half full Jays fan as I'd like to be, and I'm no FO fanboy. So my wife is used to me Jays bitching.
I find most Jays seasons frustrating, but this one is a whole new level. This pied piper narrative that Shatkins is playing for 4D chess and we will contend NEXT YEAR and well into the future, I just don't buy. I just don't see it...yet...at least. What gets easier in 2022 as Ray and Marcus WAR evaporates, unless we pay big $ just to get back to where we were. Guys are hitting Arb years. Whats it cost to give us a truly competitive bullpen next year? Our division is absolutely brutal, but its our reality. This team this year could have made a real push. We had a s*** pen, a s*** manager and no impact LHH options (no disrespect to Dickerson and Tellez didnt hit for us). All of those issues were addressable for a price. Nates looking like a semi-bust. There are some good looking positives in the farm to move or develop. We have some moveable semi-assets on the roster.
We'll see. We are standing on our head to rationalize the Berrios deal, but this Board is/was full of wet dream posts about the assets we gave up...who are apparently worthless now. To me we half assed the deadline and poked a hole in the narrative about the thousand year Reich competitive team notion moving what we did for a year of Berrios to backstop Ray loss.
Anyway...I'll be keeping an eye on tonight of course and the Jays but man this has been a rough one, save the emergence of Vlad.