Two rebuilding teams limping to the end of the regular season meet up for a three-game series. Toronto comes to the end of the season a very different-looking team than when it went in. Since the All-Star break, they’ve sold off a bunch of parts—pitchers Marcus Stroman (Mets), Aaron Sanchez (Astros), Joe Biagini (Astros), and Daniel Hudson (Nats), as well as second baseman Eric Sogard (Tampa Bay), while cutting shortstop Freddy Galvis (picked up by Cincinnati).
And yet, annoyingly, while the O’s and the Blue Jays were once separated by a handful of games at the bottom of the AL East, that gap has since stretched to 10 games.