Yankees fans will love nothing more than impending Blue Jays trade deadline fire sale

While they interminably ran their mouths at the expense of the Yankees and endlessly gloated over their first playoff victory since 2016, Toronto Blue Jays fans seemingly ignored the harsh reality of baseball: regression comes for us all.

Just a few months after making their first World Series appearance since 1993, the Blue Jays are more than likely going to miss the postseason in 2026 and are rumored to be sellers at the upcoming trade deadline. What's even funnier is that the American League is terrible this season, and they've still managed to dig themselves into too big of a hole to recover from despite an active and productive offseason.

They're not dead yet, but this is about to serve as definitive proof that the Blue Jays punched above their weight and had a ton of luck on their side in 2025 (despite spending the entirely of the season denying that). But the proof is right in front of us: Toronto made the playoffs just four times since 2017 and went nine full seasons without winning a game in October.

Yankees fans might be obnoxious too, but they know what success is. They know flukes when they see them. And when the Blue Jays blew that 3-2 World Series lead to the Dodgers with the final two games at home, we always knew they were not sniffing similar success anytime soon. We have a paper trail of that.

Blue Jays' impending trade deadline sale has Yankees feeling vindicated

What do you know? You mean to tell us Daulton Varsho, Nathan Lukes, Addison Barger and Davis Schneider playing out of their minds when they had no business doing so wasn't replicable? You mean to tell us George Springer's career-best season as a 35-year-old wasn't going to happen again at age-36?! You mean to tell us losing Bo Bichette wasn't going to have a major effect after he was an infield fixture for five seasons?

Blue Jays fans lost sight of that. They lost sight of the moment. They treated a regular season tiebreaker over the Yankees like the World Series. They treated eliminating the Yankees from the playoffs as back-to-back championships. In fact ... they became the very laughingstock they had pointed and laughed at all year. Once they had the upper hand, they gave it all back, just like the modern day Yankees. The only difference is that the Yankees are always in the playoffs, so they have more bites at the apple. The Jays are never there, so this was their moment.

Laugh at Aaron Judge's 2024 playoff performance all you want. Laugh at the Yankees' Game 5 World Series collapse against the Dodgers. Go ahead, keep laughing by yourself in your parents' basement, because nothing compares to blowing a 3-2 World Series lead with two home games left, as well as a one-run lead in the ninth with the Dodgers' worst hitter at the plate, then following that up with a limp attempt to avenge the heartbreak.

2025 was your only chance until that rare combination of talent and chemistry can be rediscovered. Instead of making one last run, the Jays will likely see Springer, Varsho, Kevin Gausman, Shane Bieber and possible some others depart by Aug. 3. They will have little choice but to get value for their short-term assets given their bloated payroll with bad contracts all over the place (Jose Berrios, Andres Gimenez, Anthony Santander, Jeff Hoffman, Yariel Rodriguez).

Instead of wasting all that energy trying to slight Cam Schlittler and cry about Jose Caballero, perhaps the Blue Jays should have focused on the bigger picture in 2026. Now they'll risk falling into a slumber for another decade or so as a roster restructure is on the way as a lockout looms.

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