The World Series has been contested 120 times in MLB’s history, and in 76 of them — 63 per cent — the winner of the first game has gone on to win it all. It’s a trend that’s only become more pronounced over the 30 Fall Classics played since the Toronto Blue Jays last qualified in 1993, a span in which the Game 1 winner has taken the series 24 times.

Not that any decision the Blue Jays make over the next 7-10 days will be low leverage. But if past is prologue, it’s imperative that the Blue Jays maximize every variable Friday night when they open the 121st World Series on home turf.

So, let’s look ahead at some of the player deployment decisions Blue Jays manager John Schenider and his staff will be weighing over the next 24 hours.

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