When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
For 162 games, the Toronto Blue Jays built their brand of baseball: great pitching, colourless offence and agonizingly poor play in the clutch. Why would fans expect the postseason to be any different?
But the Minnesota Twins’ sweep of the Jays in the American League wild-card series showed Toronto’s misfortune is more complex than originally anticipated. Something deep in the Blue Jays’ fabric — whether that’s personnel or philosophy — needs to change. But first, there are rudimentary decisions to be made.