A city that has bled feathered blue for the past two seasons is a little bit restless these days.
Blue Jays fans desperately want to trust the Ross Atkins/Mark Shapiro-led front office — they do — but the still-relatively-new brass hasn’t exactly made that an easy thing to do over the first six weeks of the off-season, as fan favourites Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista remain on the market, while the signings of Kendrys Morales, Steve Pearce and Brett Oberholtzer fail to seem like any sort of tangible improvement.
As other teams around the American League have improved by leaps and bounds — we’re looking at you Boston and Houston — the Jays are treading water at the very best, and the current roster construction isn’t exactly screaming 90-win ball club, let alone AL East contender.