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Toronto Blue Jays: An ever-shifting window of contention

It wasn’t easy watching the slow decay of a once-championship calibre roster in Toronto, and a little more than a year ago Ross Atkins and the rest of the front office ripped the bandaid right off. Most of the last remnants of the playoff teams of 2015 were traded (Russell Martin, Marcus Stroman, Aaron Sanchez, etc), or even just released, as they did with Troy Tulowitzki.

The keys were turned over to the next generation of the Blue Jays, with the next faces of the franchise including a 20-year-old Vladimir Guerrero Jr.