The Blue Jays are arriving at the All-Star break with an unexpected lead in the once-again powerful AL East. How did their once-ridiculed farm system create a lineup with this much significant length from unexpected sources? What do the Jays need to do at the trade deadline to maintain a 95-win pace? Was George Springer the biggest All-Star snub and what about Max Scherzer as a legacy selection? The MLB Draft is at hand and the Jays have had just 5 major-leaguers out of the last five drafts. And is it a PR disaster for ownership to jack the price of streaming Jays games by 30% in Sept? Then there’s the Ironbacks.

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INDEX:

Time stamp 7-11

0:00 Intro 

1:04 The MLB Draft

4:58 The Jays Great ‘24 draft

8:40 Draft stories from the Past

12:38 Drafting Brett, Schmidt, and Dan Warthen back-to-back

15:13 Jays all-stars. Did MLB miss the boat on Springer and Scherzer?

24:18 How did Jays get to this point?

27:13 Can Jays sustain and maintain in AL East using trade deadline?

35:18 Anthopoulos and the ‘14 Jays clubhouse revolt at the deadline

38:47 Jays length vs Yankees depth. How the farm system contributed

44:55 Roger’s+ package price increase in Sept. Why? 

49:19 Shoutout to Jays social media 

51:06 Ironbacks report

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