It felt like a fever dream when the move was first announced; Shane Bieber is joining the Toronto Blue Jays. That headline punctuated a trade deadline where the Blue Jays bolstered their team with some very under the radar moves, maybe none more than picking up a former Cy Young award winner who was, at the time, still recovering from Tommy John surgery.
The caveat was always that the Blue Jays were probably only getting a few starts from Bieber - at best a couple of those would be in the playoffs, and then he would opt out of his contract and test free agency.