It’s the unfortunate lot of every Toronto Blue Jays team to be compared to now-sanctified 1992 and 1993 World Series–winning Jays teams. Those two teams are the collective yardstick by which every roster since has been measured. Unfair? Maybe. Inevitable? Definitely. So how does the 2014 Jays team of extremes stack up after going from six games up in the AL East in June, to four games back of the Orioles today? Happily (for Jays fans), they’re not that far behind the double-gold standard. If they stop the skid now, the Jays’ numbers still look very much like those put up at the All-Star break by the Champs of days gone by. Don’t get too excited, of course—these stats don’t promise a World Series. All we’re saying is don’t give up the faith just yet.
