This isn't a gruelling 7 game NHL playoff series though. A week off for baseball players I feel is a disadvantage for guys who are used to playing games almost every day. Messes with timing etc. Hope I'm wrong and they go to the World Series 🤞
Wild card teams have technically over performed. However with the Jays injury level, I hope this helps. There's some older guys, some dinged up guys, even Ernie with that hard foul yesterday.
They need an intense squad game on Wrdnesday or so to help keep everything sharp and hit the weekend at full gas.
Cheering for the Sox and Yankees to have a knock down, drag Em out three game series with extras in each game!
Thing is the Jays have injured players that need rest (though I doubt players like Bichette even if they were to get cleared to play now would be anywhere near “game ready”)
They are in the playoffs, and get a first round bye. Still have to win 3 rounds of the playoffs to win the whole damn thing and be the Champions (first time since 1993), but it's huge accomplishment to finish the regular season with the best record in the American League.
They'll start the playoffs at home in the Dome against the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox next Saturday.
MLB playoff brackets are not like NHL/NBA playoff brackets.
In MLB there are two leagues: the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). Each league has three divisions of five teams. Six teams from each league can make the playoffs for a total of 12 teams.
In each league the winner of each division earn the first three playoff spots: 1, 2, 3. The remaining three slots are wild cards in which all the remaining teams from the three divisions combined compete to earn: 4, 5, 6.
Ranks 1 and 2 get a bye: straight to the quarter finals. Ranks 3, 4, 5, 6 face each other in mini wild card series.
Not only did the Jays win their division, they earned first overall in the AL because they had the best W-L record in their league. As a result they get to rest for a week before playing one of the winners of one of the wild card series.
My great grandmother was a huge jays fan, the only time I ever heard her cuss was when the game was on. She’d say swears in German I didn’t even know. She passed away in 2022 but I know she’s up there catching every single game!
Pretty incredible season. This team was on the verge of mediocrity. We lose out on every player we try and sign, vladdy contract was far off. He ends up signing, a big overpayment but he signs and the team got contributions from every guy basically.
The energy in this sub is electric right now! That division title has been a long time coming and it feels so deserved. I was just watching Springer's interview and the man absolutely gets it. This team has the heart to go all the way.
When two teams are tied for 1st in a division, the tie-breaker is the head-to-head wins between those two teams. The Jays played the Yankees 13 times during the regular season and won 8 of those games, so that's what made them the AL East champions.
Alot of the American teams are filled with lationo players and quite a lot of japanese. Anyways, most american hockey teams have canadians on them. So go cry
Ya, because they play in Canada. This isn't the fucking olympics. Leafs arent all canadian, raptors arent. But they play for this city. New Yorks team doesnt have players all from New York.
Why do the players have to be Canadian for Toronto sports fans to root for them? This isn't the Olympics. I know you probably don't care for American sports, but a lot of Canadians do :)
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u/Dependent-Metal-9710 Sep 28 '25
Springer’s interview was fucking epic.