We are on the precipice of another Major League Baseball season.

Once again, there are no perfect teams – not even the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers with their 2-0 record.

Every team has flaws and weaknesses; vulnerabilities that can be their downfall. But almost every team has a chance at making the playoffs, too.

Well, not every team. The Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies and Miami
Marlins have no shot of making the postseason. Those clubs are in rebuild mode or “they don’t care” mode, depending on how you look at them. The Los Angeles Angels, Athletics, and Washington Nationals also have very little chance of being playoff teams at this point.

But the remaining 24 teams have hopes and dreams as the season begins.

The Toronto Blue Jays have reasons to believe they can be a playoff team in 2025.

There is no juggernaut team in the American League this year like the Dodgers are in the National League. The AL East is the best and deepest division in baseball, but there is no clear-cut dominant team.

Toronto has the best starting pitching in the division, considering that every other team in the AL East has lost at least one key starting pitcher to injury, while some have lost a couple.

Sure, Jays starter Max Scherzer is dealing with a sore thumb, but he is at the back of Toronto’s rotation and Yariel Rodriguez can step in if necessary. A healthy Scherzer could help the Jays further separate themselves from the pack in the East.

The Jays bullpen was awful last year after being a strength in previous years. It’s a reminder that bullpens are an area where it’s easy for a general manager to make mistakes because it is so hard to evaluate the impact of innings and appearances from one year to the next. A good bullpen one year can break down the next.

As it stands now, this is the area I feel the least confident in about Toronto heading into the........

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