Preliminaries are out of the way. Eight teams still standing. But who do I cheer for?

Article on Sportsnet Ross Atkins to return as Blue Jays GM in 2025 https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/ross-atkins-to-return-as-blue-jays-gm-in-2025/

We are more or less agreed that sometimes a team's W-L record doesn't tell their story clear and true.

Season Four Episode 5 Vancouver Canadians Season Wrap Up with Vancouver Canadians Broadcaster Chris Georges.

Vancouver 4 Spokane 3
Somerset 8 New Hampshire 2
Buffalo 6 Gwinnett 3

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Back from a week+ away - did anything interesting happen? Oh, it did.

Seems required. The story so far:

I figure this is what we are all thinking about with the Jays odds at FanGraphs for playoffs down to 1.1% now. (2.7% at Baseball Prospectus). So lets do a thread for just this.

Baseball. It's back.

And you may ask yourself,
"Well, how did I get here?"

Cast your mind back, back, back... to one month ago. The 16th of June, to be precise (also known as Bloomsday to Joyceans like myself.)

On a boring 'no game day' and with the season looking like a lost one (odds of playoffs at 2.5% as I type), let's look at what the Jays future needs are and when, with who is next in line for each position.

Few things in life are certain, but all my life I'd been pretty sure I knew who was the greatest living baseball player. Now of course, all is confusion.