With 11 games to go in the regular season schedule, we can start talking about the Magic Number for the Blue Jays, and also the Tragic Number.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, allow me to give you a short summary. According MLB’s glossary, the Magic Number “represents the combination of wins needed by that team and losses by its closest competitor to clinch a given goal”. In this case the closest competitor would be the New York Yankees, who just half a game behind Toronto, but the Jays also have one game in hand on the Bronx Bombers.