DUNEDIN, Fla. -- For the first time since 2015, the Blue Jays enter the season as clear underdogs in the American League East and that seems to suit this group just fine.
Toronto's internal expectations are a little higher than most of the external ones. This is a group that contains a lot of the same pieces from the roster that went to the American League Championship Series in consecutive years, and the goal is to get back there again.
That's going to be easier said than done after the Yankees and Red Sox loaded up over the offseason, but with two Wild Card spots in play the Blue Jays could find a path to the postseason even with the two-headed monster ahead of them.