Jul 22, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 12 segments
As Toronto’s postseason hopes grow increasingly remote, Arden and Ben take a big picture look at how the Blue Jays could approach the trade deadline as sellers (2:53). Then, after shouting out a…
Arden ZwellingHost
Ben Nicholson-SmithHost
We were so much younger then and so much more innocent on June 22nd, when the Blue Jays won the first game of a home stand 4-2 over the Houston Astros to move to 39 and 39, reaching 500 for the first time since early April.
What has happened over the 23 games since? Well, the Blue Jays have won at a 304 clip, going 7-16 in that span.
They have scored 3.48 runs per game with a 604 OPS, both dead last in baseball.
Their ERA 459, that is the 19th worst in baseball, and their run differential negative 38, 28th in baseball.
It is hard to play as generously the second worst team in baseball for a month and qualify for the postseason, and that is why we are where we are today.
Very, uh, surprising as well, uh, because there have been lots of times this season where it seemed like, hey, maybe they can get back into it, especially given the, uh, the competition surrounding them in the American League.
There's technically a 9% chance that they make the playoffs, and so, uh, that door is not closed.
And certainly when you talk to uniformed people around this team, coaches, John Schneider, the players, they're trying to focus on winning the game in front of them, on trying to get back into this thing if they can.
But for those of us who zoom out a little bit more and look at this thing bigger picture, it's starting to look like a team that needs to sell.
And, um, you know, I say starting, obviously it's been gradual in the course of that last month, and certainly has been really accentuated in the last, uh, five games since the All-Star break, where they've gone one and four and really played poorly and been unable to score a lot of runs.
I mean, it's, it's a frustrating time, I know, for Blue Jays fans and, um, and for people in uniform because they are not achieving the results that they need to, and this season is just going off in a bad direction.
We were so much younger then and so much more innocent on June 22nd, when the Blue Jays won the first game of a home stand 4-2 over the Houston Astros to move to 39 and 39, reaching 500 for the first time since early April.
What has happened over the 23 games since? Well, the Blue Jays have won at a 304 clip, going 7-16 in that span.
They have scored 3.48 runs per game with a 604 OPS, both dead last in baseball.
Their ERA 459, that is the 19th worst in baseball, and their run differential negative 38, 28th in baseball.
It is hard to play as generously the second worst team in baseball for a month and qualify for the postseason, and that is why we are where we are today.
Very, uh, surprising as well, uh, because there have been lots of times this season where it seemed like, hey, maybe they can get back into it, especially given the, uh, the competition surrounding them in the American League.
There's technically a 9% chance that they make the playoffs, and so, uh, that door is not closed.
And certainly when you talk to uniformed people around this team, coaches, John Schneider, the players, they're trying to focus on winning the game in front of them, on trying to get back into this thing if they can.
But for those of us who zoom out a little bit more and look at this thing bigger picture, it's starting to look like a team that needs to sell.
And, um, you know, I say starting, obviously it's been gradual in the course of that last month, and certainly has been really accentuated in the last, uh, five games since the All-Star break, where they've gone one and four and really played poorly and been unable to score a lot of runs.
I mean, it's, it's a frustrating time, I know, for Blue Jays fans and, um, and for people in uniform because they are not achieving the results that they need to, and this season is just going off in a bad direction.
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