The Toronto Blue Jays are a team that’s been loaded with talent for four years now and, depending on the season, ranged from a scrappy opponent to downright terrifying in the regular season. However, the story has not been the same in the playoffs. The Blue Jays have made the playoffs in three of the past four seasons and in all three of those instances, they’ve been swept in the AL Wild Card Series.
In 2020, it was as a part of the short season 8-team AL bracket, with the Jays as the unprecedented “8-seed.” In 2021, they won 91 games and it wasn’t enough, finishing fourth in a loaded AL East and falling short of the one-game playoff against the Yankees and Red Sox (often referred to as “The last time Fenway was fun”).