I think one of the things that makes it hurt more for me about all of our players being traded is feeling like we keep on losing and the Dodgers keep on winning. Like, the 2025 world series was the Power of Friendship versus the richest team in the MLB, and then capitalism won. It feels like this year Jays fans and players are being punished by the universe with an atrocious season and having to watch teammates who helped us get to the world series get traded, all for the crime of losing to the Dodgers. We’re selling players literally the year after making it to Game 7 of the World Series because our playoff chances are low. We were first in the American League at this time last year and as of writing this we are 4 games out of a wild card spot. We now have to mourn the loss of guys like Gaus and Varsh and Hoff, who all wanted so badly to stay with the team in Toronto who are being forced to go elsewhere because we just didn’t do as well this year.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers get to trade for Tarik Skubal not necessarily because they need him but because trading for him means he’s off the market for other teams. They managed to get one of the best pitchers in the league right now because the Tigers likely wouldn’t have been able to pay him come the end of his current contract. I don’t doubt that he'll be added to their rotation and that he’ll do well, but the Dodgers didn’t need Skubal to take them to the playoffs this year; they were heading there anyways. They have so much money and players that it’s no wonder teams like Cleveland or Cincinnati can barely keep up in the same market. They seemingly have a dugout vibe different to ours that they have a guy like Dalton Rushing who plays with ego and disrespects other players and who Shohei Ohtani literally avoids in the dugout who is being praised for his skills. They’ve had some of their better players like Snell, Smith, Hernandez, and others who missed/are missing large chunks of this season but it hasn’t even mattered bc they’re 2nd in the NL anyways.
The Jays came the closest anyone could mathematically get to winning without actually winning. I’m trying to stay positive and romantic about sports like I usually do, I really am, but it’s just kinda hard to do that when it feels like the rich keep getting richer and we’re just forced into more heartbreak for nothing.
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