TORONTO -- It’s easy to forget the team we all expected the Blue Jays to be.

Widely projected as a team that would land somewhere in the range of “.500 and uneventful”, the Blue Jays have been one of baseball’s biggest surprises. Now sitting comfortably as the No. 1 seed in the ALDS , waiting for either the Red Sox or Yankees to come join them, the Blue Jays have shaken every expectation, every doubt, every bad idea.

Roughly 270 days ago, the gates of the Blue Jays’ player development complex slid open to the media for the first time. There have been a thousand interviews since then, probably more. These are the quotes that define the 2025 Blue Jays and where they’re going.

“I’ve quietly got a really good [freaking] feeling about this team. Seriously.”

-- John Schneider, early March

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