The Blue Jays are currently 17 games above .500 and leading the AL East, creating an urge for a significant trade deadline approach. Blake Murphy emphasizes the need for aggressiveness due to the Blue Jays' strong position and the wins they've secured. He questions the lineup dynamics when everyone's healthy, particularly addressing players like Santander and Gimenez. Murphy sees the team as needing three or four key additions to truly compete, referencing the unpredictability of baseball and the importance of capitalizing on current opportunities. He remarks on the team's willingness to trade prospects for suitable returns.
If you are a run differential person or projection model person and you see the Blue Jays and they're in first place... that is the biggest case to be super aggressive at the deadline. You have been gifted wins, and they're not a bad team.
When I'm working through what the lineup looks like when everyone's healthy... I don't know. Is Santander hitting sixth or seventh? Like, he's not penciled into the top four spots in the order, that's for sure.
Baseball's cruel, man. Like 2021-you can be a great team and still miss out because of one game. You don't always get breaks, so when you do, you need to push.
They've shown they'll move prospects, even big-name ones, if the return justifies it. But they're smart about it.
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