[SportsJunky]

from Deadspin:

This is not how .500 teams that are seven games back of the division lead are supposed to act, but the Blue Jays clearly don’t consider themselves to be a normal 51-51 team. GM Alex Anthopoulos is buying in, and clearly believes that Price and Tulowitzki are going to help carry the Jays through a huge second half and into the playoffs.
He has good reason to feel that way, too, because the Blue Jays aren’t a normal .500 team. Their run differential—the statistic that is most telling of a team’s true talent level—is sitting at +100, the best mark in baseball. Baseball Reference puts their Pythagorean record at 60-42, which would put them three games up on the first-place Yankees. Even before these trades happened, the Jays would have been a good pick to surge into the playoffs. Now that they’ve added the best shortstop in baseball to the league’s best offense and a top-tier starter to what was previously a middling rotation, they look like legitimate juggernauts. They Jays have everything they need to go out and #### #### up and hunt down the Yankees, and watching them try to do it is going to be fun as hell.

http://deadspin.com/blue-jays-trade-...-al-1721106144