It was a little more than three weeks ago when the Jays hit rock bottom, losing
their ninth game in a row as Roy Halladay was shelled for the second
time in a week. The very next day Doc was having his appendix removed. Things looked... grim?
Since then, Toronto has posted a pretty nifty 14-8 record. That's .636 ball, and that's generally good enough to take a team as far as it needs to go. If the Jays maintain it, they'll end up winning 93 games. Nine game losing streak and all. Obviously that's going to be hard to do.
But just as obviously, they're still not firing on all cylinders. Halladay himself is back, apparently as good as ever, but he only appeared in one of those 22 games. Gregg Zaun and Reed Johnson missed every one of those games, and Troy Glaus may very well be day-to-day for the rest of the season. They're getting by anyway.
The loss of Lyle Overbay for the next month or so essentially means that both Matt Stairs and Adam Lind can be expected to play every day. Stairs, of course, has been en fuego lately and Lind had a nice breakout day on Sunday. Frank Thomas and Vernon Wells, for the most part, have yet to be heard from. Thomas is looking extremely frustrated, partially because he's actually starting to hit the ball well. So far, they're hooking foul, or finding fielder's gloves. That worm will turn.
This thing ain't over yet.
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