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I get the idea the Jays aren't that much worse, but that to me speaks to depth. Pretty well known that the Jays have been shallow for quite a while now but last 2 years they avoided major injuries. Injuries have been a mess this year and it's exposed their lack of depth which is why I think they are struggling so much this year. There is just no depth for guys to pick up the slack while guys like Donaldson or Sanchez find their grove coming back form injury and the fact that they keep getting older doesn't help either. Guys like Tulo and Estrada falling off the map isn't something the Jays can afford with such little depth.

the rebuild was coming no matter what so i'm not sure this year changes that. the tricky thing with the Jays is Donaldson, everything else is pretty straightforward. Sure you sell your pending FA but you aren't going to get anything for them so if you want to "rebuild" you need to start talking about trading guys like Donaldson and maybe even guys like Pillar, Stroman etc. Donaldson may make that decision for him if he doesn't want to stick around through an obvious rebuild.