Back to the Top News Newsfeed

Blue Jays takeaways: What we learned from season-opening series with Cardinals

Three games aren’t much of a sample size in baseball. It’s not large enough to draw any conclusions, but it offers a few tidbits of what’s to come for the remaining 159 games for the Blue Jays.

Here’s what we’ve learned about Toronto after its first series of the season.

Bassitt has work to do

Chris Bassitt was awestruck. Six batters into his Blue Jays career, he’d allowed four runs on three homers. Sunday’s outing versus the St. Louis Cardinals got much worse after that — and it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence after Bassitt struggled in spring training (5.