By Stephen Johns

The Toronto Blue Jays are on pace for a 121-win season. This likely won’t happen—PECOTA’s projected seventy-three wins seems much more reasonable—but that shouldn’t take the gloss off of a series win over the Detroit Tigers which featured a blowout, a stirring comeback, and an impressive major league debut by Ricky Romero. (It’s hardly worth mentioning that they’re atop the American League East but…well, it’s still nice to see.) Crucially, each of the victories followed strong pitching performances. We’re still keeping our expectations in check, but we’re also a little tired of hearing “experts” predicting certain doom for our favourite baseball team (Sports Illustrated, for instance, has them finishing behind the Baltimore Orioles, which would be a disaster). Given that, we’re looking forward to the Jays proving the experts at least a little bit wrong this year. They’ll resume that quest this weekend in Cleveland with a three-game series against the Indians.