00:00but i also don't think many thought that the toronto blue jays would beat out the yankees
00:06and the red sox let alone the baltimore orioles who have been one of the bigger disappointments
00:10and i haven't even mentioned tampa bay a lot of people thought maybe the blue jays are just last
00:14and just derail everything this year and trade all their players guerrero bichette who knows
00:20here they are on fanduel standing at 92 and a half for their win total and there's certainly
00:26a chance they could win 100 games they're heavy favorites now to win the al east for the first
00:30time all year uh you know plus 410 to win the al is as good as just about anybody detroit houston etc
00:36and the world series you never know it's a tournament as you've said previously you just
00:39don't know at that point who's gonna win but uh what has been the secret sauce for the blue jays
00:44here and it does feel like they're getting reinforcements in scherzer and even bieber
00:48coming back this weekend yeah so the short answer is depth and i think the long answer is i was right
00:55there with i think the majority of the baseball crowd coming into this year saying this team was
00:59i avalanching towards a rebuild i i mean they were going to move latty they were going to move bichette
01:04they were going to move gosman and you just had to start from scratch it almost felt like they were
01:09stuck coming into the year and then all of a sudden george springer starts playing like george springer
01:14the springer that they paid and gosman starts pitching like the gosman that they paid same with
01:19barrios he's kind of ascended from that brutal 23 season i think it was and they've had some other
01:26guys recapture the form that made them enticing in the first place the best example is probably bo
01:32bichette at this point um but for me it's the depth like they've had a guy like addison barger
01:37breakout addison barger was somebody that i think a lot of people liked but didn't love and now all of
01:43a sudden barger looks like an all-star caliber type player for them alejandro kirk has recaptured some of that
01:49that magic that he had early they extended him i was kind of scratching my head i was like
01:54why are they extending alejandro kirk oh this is why they're extending alejandro kirk right and it
01:59comes from the pitching again i mean scherzer has thrown okay right now but for me i'm looking at
02:07gosman and barrios at the top and then eric lauer at the bottom of the rotation this guy was in korea
02:13last year he was in the kbo and he's got a sub three era and oh by the way we see shane bieber's debut
02:19uh in miami on friday
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