The Blue Jays are four years into their latest competitive window, but what do they have to show for it? Between the 2020-2023 seasons, they’ve reached the playoffs three times, collecting 304 wins, with a .557 win percentage. They’ve been a steady wild-card playoff team, never winning more than 92 games, yet achieving the sixth-best record in baseball during this timeframe.  Granted, they’ve tried to add to the core by signing notable free agents such as Hyun Jin Ryu,...

Every spring I play out this internal dialogue where I think to myself: the Rays really can’t be that good again this season, right? The luck has to eventually run out. I’m perplexed as I pore over their roster and depth charts filled with unknown names of waiver-wire pickups and trade acquisitions, and occasionally what looks like a player on a savvy free-agent deal.  Yet, I know that while I don’t know where they managed to find these players, inevitably the Rays will...