patrick stasyszyn. i agree, i think management went cheap on the bull pen and it cost them the playoff. when one game costs you the playoffs then you missed something. i don't know the exact number but the bull pen cost the jays at least 10 games in the mid season. how come they were able to pick up all those bull pen pieces late in the season but not at the beginning?
If Springer was healthy all year he would have made the difference in15 games….we would have been in first place contention all year….one injury made the difference
@@robmorris8331 - if Dolis didn’t blow lead after lead we would have made the playoffs. We just needed one better game, just one game from Dolis. We missed out on the playoffs by one point.
The AL east is just insanely competitive. We got screwed yes, but we could’ve won some games later in the season like the ones against the Twins and such. Hopefully we’ll get over the hump next year.
The Blue Jays got incredibly screwed over, but on the other hand, look at how unbelievably lucky the Mariners were to even be in that position. Pythagorean wins had them at 75 wins, with the -55 run differential, but they pulled 90 wins out of their asses, by some miracle.
This team on paper was incredible. You can see at 11:03 that the bullpen was actually great in April (building on the strong pen they had in 2020) but then literally everyone except Jordan Romano got injured. Kirby Yates got TJ'd before the season even started. It takes a really fucked up god to take two feel good stories (who were polar opposites on the field) in the 2021 Blue Jays and Mariners and have them both miss the playoffs by a game
Imagine if Yates had been healthy. There would've likely been no Brad Hand. A set up duo of Romano and Cimber (oh, and Mayza as well) combined with Yates? That would've gotten us to the playoffs, I'm sure.
Playing essentially nothing but away games for more than the first half of the season is something no other team in baseball had to face. There’s at least an extra win there somewhere if the Jays had had a normal schedule. Every team deals with injuries, a bad bp, a critical error at key moments, etc. (and the Jays benefited and won a few games because of some of those by the other team as much as the Jays suffered losses as a result of similar gaffes on the Jay’s side). Those aren’t valid reasons to cry about missing the post season by a single game, but the pandemic schedule definitely is. The Jays were a playoff team.
100%... I don't think the video gives take enough credit. Jays essentially played half the season on the road. If you look at the home records between when they were in Fl and Edin and when they were at Rogers they would have won at least two more games. This team performs very well when pressured.
I think the 90 win Mariners would’ve been cool to see. Like imagine a -50 run differential in the playoffs. Would’ve been cool to see how the most clutch team would survive in the a 1 game playoff and see what could’ve happened
The amount of bad luck this team had was insane, they had about 10,12 games where the lined out about 5 or more times, meanwhile the yankees were getting flukey hits the entire season
Jays are WS contenders this year. Dont get it mistaken, the team that ended the season was one of the best in baseball. So the popular, "but they lost Semien and Ray" rhetoric and therefore arent a 90 win team anymore is false. Because the finalized team last year was much more than a 91 win team. Theyve already supplemented Gausman for Ray and theyre sure to make more, add ontop of that another year of experience for their young core and Springer not being as injured, this team is going to be a nightmare for the rest of the league. Their biggest problem last year was the pitching staff for the first 3 months. And that is fixed now. They have a solid 1-4 and a bullpen that can get it done when needed.
As a Jays fan my only worry is replacing semiens production. Biggio should be better and maybe a trade but the HR from the 2nd spot in the lineup was huge
The Mariners are just the unluckiest baseball franchise in recent memory. They managed to win 90 games right when the AL East became the 1st division to ever have 4 90 win teams. Even more unlucky, they also had a record setting offense in 1996 and also somehow missed the playoffs.
Well yeah but there was only one wildcard back then. The dodgers that same year had 92 wins and missed the playoffs too. The Mariners got 93 wins again and missed the playoffs again the very next year, and then Cleveland did it in 2005. It wasn't entirely uncommon.
@@legochickenguy4938 And if you want to go a step further, before the wild cards came in, in 1993 the San Francisco Giants won 103 games and missed the playoffs -- because Atlanta won 104 games.
If any jays fan or anyone remembers the Marcus semien error, probably one of the worst I have ever seen which would have won us the game and get us to the playoffs
I remember the bullpen coughing up so many games, and I remember Semien winning us enough games that I would never paint any part of this season as Semien did something that made us not make playoffs. You could point to any single loss and say thats the loss that made us miss, but doing so would be crazy lol.
But that’s just part of normal baseball. We’ve won games we may not have but for errors made by the other team too. Picking at those types of in game scenarios is meaningless unless you can show there were factors that only the Jays faced but the other teams did not. To me the single biggest factor in the Jays not making the playoffs isn’t injuries or a sucky bp or a terrible error at key moments (every team faces those), but the fact the Jays played essentially nothing but away games for more than the first half of the season. There’s at least an extra win in there somewhere if the schedule had been normal (probably more but I’m being conservative for the sake of argument). No other team in baseball had to deal with that.
I always say it’s death by a thousand cuts in baseball. We did not make it by one game yes however their where multiple games that we could’ve won and didn’t that’s just the one that stands out.
Remember it very well. Was sitting lower level first base side when Semien got the ball. Thought, this game is over and stared in disbelief as the throw to first played out in front of me. My eyes couldn't believe what they'd just witnessed. Sat there in numbed silence.
I’ve been a jays fan since I was a kid (I’m 26) and I barely had friends who likes baseball cause it was “boring” and “slow” but it didn’t bother me, I still supported. This 2021 run for that last WC spot was so amazing for the city’s baseball fans that it eventually brought in people who weren’t fans, aka my friends. We all watched all the September games together on discord and were pumped each win and we obviously wanted the jays to make it. Unfortunately, we know the results but I only see this team going up. Thanks for the jays coverage! Keep it up
Screw Rafael Devers. If he didn't hit that go ahead home run against the Nationals, at least the Jays would've made the playoffs. Mariners could've had a chance as well.
On October 3, 2021 I was just coming back to my university after visiting my cousins for the weekend. I went to the Aldershot train station in Burlington, Ontario, a city in the Greater Toronto Area. When I got there I saw a sea of blue jerseys and baseball caps (Never gonna forget the shirt asking me "Who's your Vladdy?") all heading on the train to Union Station to get to the Rogers Centre to watch our team play what might be their final game. As soon as I got back to my room, I opened my barely functional MacBook and brand new laptop to try to play all three final regular season games at once. I watched as the first baseball team I had ever followed all walked back to the clubhouse proud of their sweep and hopeful of their playoff prospects. What followed that night was me staring at my ceiling both sad and frustrated as the team that got me through the worst of a pandemic and that despite relocating three times in one season managed to miss the playoffs by exactly one loss. This team of baseball boys really meant a lot more to me than I thought. Watching this video made me realize that. Through how it helped me connect to my recently deceased father in the months before his passing, to helping me adjust to my new life as a university student, the 2021 Toronto Blue Jays will always have a place in my heart and they truly deserved better. Thank you for reading this far if you still are.
Man, I saw that Devers home run and the Nationals blow that lead and was so disheartened as a Jays fan. I can just imagine how the Jays players reacted to that.
Without a doubt the best team I've ever seen that never made the Postseason. Their offense was absolutely lethal. Their pitching was underrated too. Sure, their bullpen could use some work, but Nate Pearson is coming back and should help out the staff even more, forcing someone to a relief role, and they even have more promising arms in the minors. This team is a favorite of mine to be the next potential dynasty over the next couple seasons. I had previously picked the Chicago White Sox but I don't think they're as strong as Toronto.
I’ve been playing as the jays on mlb 21 for March to October to try and rewrite the season in my head at least 😅 made it in just ahead of the Yankees and also managed to trade for Scherzer
We forget the 2018 rays winning 90 games with one of the cheapest owners in the league and not going to the playoffs. And that 2020 season when they went to the World Series where two of the dodgers player were paid the same amount of the whole rays team
Crazy to think, a team without several of its best and most promising players that won fewer games than the 4th place team in the AL East won the world series. Baseball everybody.
I don't know what was worse: Giving the Jays Brad Hand, Riley Adams burning the Jays with 3 hits in 1 game (Riley had 3 hits TOTAL with the Jays), or getting swept to the Red Sox including blowing a 5-1 lead.
I mostly just started watching the games after they moved but now im a huge blue jays fan and seeing all of this makes me happy but at the same time it hurts
I was hoping for San Diego vs Toronto World Series. Two young fun teams to watch BUT both fell short. Regardless I went out of my way to watch them last year. I also really enjoy listening to the Padres broadcast. They have a really good crew. Blue jays…..buck martinez was here in Baltimore before Toronto and I’m glad he’s enjoying himself there. For those that didn’t know, T mobile was gives away free mlb tv subscriptions through their T-Mobile Tuesday promotion at the beginning of each year. So that made it easy to watch other teams but of course there’s the ridiculous local blackouts. Nothing that a vpn can’t fix though. I don’t know how this lockout mess will effect that. Oh well, just thought I mention it.
The 2021 Blue Jays were kind of the opposite of the 2016 Rangers in how their season played out. The Rangers led the American League in wins that year, never really played much of the season outside of first place in the AL West, and went 32-11 in one-run games. They were extremely clutch that season, but they suffered from an opposite issue. While the Blue Jays were blowing teams out--which inflated their run differential--the Rangers would lose games big, which left them with a poor +8 run differential. When they won, the games were pretty close, and when they lost, they were getting the brakes blown off them. This formula worked until they faced the Blue Jays in an ALDS rematch. It exposed them for being a bit too lucky during the regular season, as they came out unprepared and sloppy - at least in game one. They would eventually get swept. It's so interesting to me when you examine a team's strengths and weaknesses and how that compares similarly to other teams from past seasons. Man, I really love this sport.
All four teams in the AL East are capable of winning the division this year. It's going to be a fun year. Now let's get this lockout over and done with!
That is the beauty of professional sports, you get what you deserve. If they'd deserved playoffs, they would've made the playoffs. The way team played at end of year maybe made people forget how many games our bullpen gave away earlier in season. How much team struggled offensively at times without Springer in lineup, even while Vlad was crushing. Injuries happen. If they'd played better and had better luck, they showed that when everything came together at end of year, they were as good or better than other playoff teams.
I mean all of these points are legit reasons as why the Jays could have been better, but a big thing not really talked about is that they are in a division with the Yankees, Red Sox and now the seemingly always good Rays and with the stupid playoff design being divisional instead of like top 8 of the conference, it's just an extremely tough division to be in. I would much rather change it to a top 8 conference finish with either less regular season games or shorter playoff series instead of the divisions. I think we're missing out on more exciting baseball this way!
Can you imagine if the NBA based the playoffs on division standings as opposed to conference standings? They'd lose a lot of popularity. The MLB has the stupidest playoff format.
honestly it was fun watch them yanks boston and mariners all have a huge fight for playoff spots and even playing eachother all the time in the last month
so i was at the last game against baltamore and they put the Washington Boston game on the big screen and the game finished just before the walk off was and there was a hole world of disappointment in the statium
I wish you mentioned that the rays intentionally lost to the Yankees to let the weaker team into the postseason, the rays are smart, if they were trying to win that last game don't you think they would've walked judge in the bottom of the ninth with runners on 2nd and 3rd and one out? That's the most clear cut intentional walk I've ever seen, but the rays aren't stupid, they recognized that losing was better for them
And this is y I’m scared of the BlueJays the most as a Yankees fan because now with the families of the players securely in Toronto the core is going to go off
Like this was a season where we got done in by a tough division, and a few key losses. But the fact that the Jays did all this while bouncing between 3 different home ballparks this year was impressive. The Brightside is this team has a great future.
@@CharmCityGamer The Jays underperformed their expected record by 10 games. The Mariners overperformed by 10 games. They were pretenders, they Jays werent.
Bears mentioning that their bullpen wasn't necessarily bad to start the season, but lengthy injuries to a number of relief pitchers will do you in, especially when you're left with guys like Hand and Dolis to clean up games. Romano is the exception to this, and I'm grateful he's a consistent closer for the Jays, but they didn't have many healthy guys in their rotation for a number of games. They have a number of things going for them this year - a single home stadium to play in, a Golden Glove third baseman with Chapman, the additions of Gausman and Kikuchi on the mound, the core group of young guys is intact, and they'll have Springer for the full season. The loss of Semien did hurt, but if his batting record is replicable with the Rangers, more power to him, but I don't see him hitting as many HRs with their club. This team is hungry, and they have a healthy roster of strong talent. If they don't make it to the playoffs this year, something catastrophic has to happen to prevent them from succeeding.
Goes to show you can have a top tier roster and sometimes in baseball that simply doesn’t matter. As a Mariners fan I feel for them given we’ve done this multiple times
I wouldn't say we've done this multiple times. I can't honestly say that since 2001 we've had a team as good as the Jays were this year. Similarly during this playoff drought we only won 90 games 3 times and 2 of those were in 2002 and 2003. Luckily the future looks bright with guys like JP, Flexen, and Mitch leading the way
This team is so underrated despite losing Semien and ray. Their rotation is great and adding Gausman makes it even better. We all know their ability to take pitchers and make the good. They still have a great team with bichette, springer, Guerrero jr, gurriel, etc. The mariners and the blue jays are both RIGHT THERE. BARELY not in the playoffs. I think both teams will improve even more in the offseason.
It is bad luck for sure, luck of the draw with divisions. The Braves had terrible luck too with injuries, having their whole outfield replaced by journeyman most the year and Fried/Anderson going on the IL numerous times, as well as Soroka again missing the year. The 88 win Braves wasn’t the same team as after the all star break; after the break they put together one of the best records in baseball.
They went from a team that deserved better to deserve nothing so very quick. I’m glad the Jays clinched again but we need results now. No excuses. Get it done.
Chatwood walking 4 straight batters with no one warming up in the bullpen is where I pin this entire season on :( I remember that game as vividly as the A's walk off (and I was live at the A's walk off one lol)
There are so many places where you can play the "what if game" to get that extra win for game 163 vs the Red Sox. It hurts even more when you realize that the Red Sox made it to the ALCS and the Jays could have done the same if they made the playoffs
There isn't much mystery here. Their bullpen blew more leads than I can ever remember in a season, they had horrible injuries plague them all year (springer, waguespeck, romero, the list goes on and on). Not to mention getting boo'd at "home" in buffalo and dunedin games, it's a miracle we got 91 wins. So much bad luck.
It is a bit staggering to see just how polar opposite the jays were to the Ms that year. Not only in one run and extra inning games, but also while the jays could pull off some blowout wins, a key reason the Ms run differential was so bad was because of some key blowout loses (if you take away just 3 games from that 2021 season, the differential would've gone from -50 to a much less horrifying -20). And both teams in 2022 would go on to face each other in the playoffs in a game where the jays lost due to their bullpen, and the Ms came through thanks to clutch hitting that pulled them back from a seven run deficit, culminating in a one-run win. Just... wow.
If the jays don’t trade for hand they’re in bc he blew games for them and the person who they they traded away for him had an insane hit to make the jays lose
After watching this and the recent Free Agency signings that the Blue Jays made, I think the Red Sox and Yankees have awaken a monster in their division
The end of last season was devastating. Just got screwed out of a couple games at the end. One of the games was the worst umping I've ever seen. Ron Kulpa. The bad series against Texas. 1 game out is tough.
This might be a tall ask but I’d love to see a video on the offensive production from the cubs offense in the second half compared to the cubs offense in the first
This has to be one of the best teams ever to not make the playoffs. AL Cy winner, 2 MVP runner ups, 4 players with 100+ RBIs 4 all stars (should’ve been 5) and one of the stronger rotations in the AL
Seminar walkout Homer with the 6 run comeback and grand slam was probably the best bluejays game I've ever watched Other then the 7th inning against Texas 😂😂😂
There should be some win threshold to automatically make the playoffs regardless of standing in your division. I remember a few years back where the Giants had about 100 wins and didn’t make the playoffs. If the leagues have to cut back a few games of the regular season to accommodate an expanded playoffs, so be it. But to have an outstanding season in terms of wins and not make the playoffs - ridiculous.
No mention of the fact that they played in the best division in MLB??? In the NL east, they would have comfortably finished first. The Braves won the WS after winning just 88 games. This is a constant problem in MLB -- the divisions are not all equal in competetiveness, and the AL east almost always has the best teams.
After that season, I never want to hear Jays media (looking directly at you, Mike Wilner) say "it's early" after early season losses, ever again. Every game matters.
The situation with Semien is probably solved with just putting Biggio at 2nd. He didnt like playing 3rd and had a lot of struggles and while he had a harsh 2020-2021 he can bounce back and be a dark horse deceptive hitter... and hes still young. Gausman is going to be a great replacement for Ray. But yeah... we needed to win the games we should have won. I look at the series against the Tigers for example. Can't rely on other teams to finish the job for you. Win the games. But man was an incredible season and if all goes right whenever we have a next season they should be ready to compete for a title.
Crazy the Jays had a better record than the Braves who won the WS but didn’t even make the playoffs. BTW, I think you should do a video coverage the 2021 Braves. Personally, as a fan I thought they should’ve sold at the deadline. Truly glad they didn’t.
I'm glad people are acknowledging the season. It was a heartbreaking ending really. Things could have gone differently with 1 or 2 more wins. Also SCREW BRAD HAND AND HIS BULLSHIT.
@@Dra90nGamer chatwood may have self destructed at the end of the season, but at the start while romano was injured he and Dolis were the only two somewhat competent relivers the Jays had in April and May. Hand was only bad and the Jays gave up a prospect to get him.
As a huge Jays fan, watching their bullpen pitch from May to July gave me unimaginable amounts of heart-burn
@@Dra90nGamer watching chatwood and hand pitch was some of the most panful memories I have of the Jays
patrick stasyszyn. i agree, i think management went cheap on the bull pen and it cost them the playoff. when one game costs you the playoffs then you missed something. i don't know the exact number but the bull pen cost the jays at least 10 games in the mid season. how come they were able to pick up all those bull pen pieces late in the season but not at the beginning?
same bro that was so hard to watch
I agree, next season will be good one for the team
Pain
I'll never forget the Semien walk-off vs the A's. The best blue jays game in recent memory
Yeah that was a fun game! And the gurriel grand salami
I cry as an Oakland fan and am in physical pain when I think about it
@@NovusUAV same, why did it have to be Semien? You’d think being an A’s fan, we’d be used to pain
Brotha don't forget Mr. Jose smacking that bomb out against the Rangers. Stadium erupted
Yeah that was so much fun what a come back with gurriel jr’s grand slam and semiens walk off
If Springer missed like 65 games instead of 80, they probably would have made the playoffs
We blew like 10 games we should have won we should have and could have easily had 100+ wins
yeah and if Semien made a routine game ending out instead of making an error and the Tigers winning, you can keep doing this all day long.
If Springer was healthy all year he would have made the difference in15 games….we would have been in first place contention all year….one injury made the difference
@@robmorris8331 - if Dolis didn’t blow lead after lead we would have made the playoffs. We just needed one better game, just one game from Dolis. We missed out on the playoffs by one point.
@@howdareyou41 I was just saying how I felt about the team. Don't understand why you're being snarky. I wasn't giving excuses
The AL east is just insanely competitive. We got screwed yes, but we could’ve won some games later in the season like the ones against the Twins and such. Hopefully we’ll get over the hump next year.
dont worry, with gausman, the best rotaation, 1st basman, and outfielder, we are sure to make the playoffs
No like at one point, we had the top spot in the wild card and thennn, september happend
@@lemauntory2951 but our best game of the season was in September. Which built up my expectations for September, then we screwed up
The Blue Jays got incredibly screwed over, but on the other hand, look at how unbelievably lucky the Mariners were to even be in that position. Pythagorean wins had them at 75 wins, with the -55 run differential, but they pulled 90 wins out of their asses, by some miracle.
Thank God they expanded the post season this year
This team on paper was incredible. You can see at 11:03 that the bullpen was actually great in April (building on the strong pen they had in 2020) but then literally everyone except Jordan Romano got injured. Kirby Yates got TJ'd before the season even started. It takes a really fucked up god to take two feel good stories (who were polar opposites on the field) in the 2021 Blue Jays and Mariners and have them both miss the playoffs by a game
Rafael Dolis would also implode in 2021 after a very strong 2020 season.
@@andrewfarelli9241 We don’t talk about Rafael Dolis
@@Arden2000 lol. I wouldn't be mad about how the contract turned out as his 2020 was very much needed for the Blue Jays.
Imagine if Yates had been healthy. There would've likely been no Brad Hand. A set up duo of Romano and Cimber (oh, and Mayza as well) combined with Yates? That would've gotten us to the playoffs, I'm sure.
Playing essentially nothing but away games for more than the first half of the season is something no other team in baseball had to face. There’s at least an extra win there somewhere if the Jays had had a normal schedule. Every team deals with injuries, a bad bp, a critical error at key moments, etc. (and the Jays benefited and won a few games because of some of those by the other team as much as the Jays suffered losses as a result of similar gaffes on the Jay’s side). Those aren’t valid reasons to cry about missing the post season by a single game, but the pandemic schedule definitely is. The Jays were a playoff team.
100%... I don't think the video gives take enough credit. Jays essentially played half the season on the road. If you look at the home records between when they were in Fl and Edin and when they were at Rogers they would have won at least two more games. This team performs very well when pressured.
I think the 90 win Mariners would’ve been cool to see. Like imagine a -50 run differential in the playoffs. Would’ve been cool to see how the most clutch team would survive in the a 1 game playoff and see what could’ve happened
+90 fun differential though
@@timthe55th yessir, we win in the fun aspects of things
Could have one the WS, 1 run plays in the post. Run different mean much. Means an early exit in post.
The amount of bad luck this team had was insane, they had about 10,12 games where the lined out about 5 or more times, meanwhile the yankees were getting flukey hits the entire season
Congratulations for IDIOT comment of the year 😂 😂 😂
Lmao. The Yankees outside of Judge and Stanton underperformed the whole season while your entire team had career years. Stop making excuses.
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@@grega490 Yankees got extremely lucky. That's a fact.
De Havilland Canada Twin Otter You ready to make a new excuse this year or what? 😂
Jays are WS contenders this year. Dont get it mistaken, the team that ended the season was one of the best in baseball. So the popular, "but they lost Semien and Ray" rhetoric and therefore arent a 90 win team anymore is false. Because the finalized team last year was much more than a 91 win team. Theyve already supplemented Gausman for Ray and theyre sure to make more, add ontop of that another year of experience for their young core and Springer not being as injured, this team is going to be a nightmare for the rest of the league. Their biggest problem last year was the pitching staff for the first 3 months. And that is fixed now. They have a solid 1-4 and a bullpen that can get it done when needed.
As a Jays fan my only worry is replacing semiens production. Biggio should be better and maybe a trade but the HR from the 2nd spot in the lineup was huge
Amen Yolo!
Chill with the "WS contenders" talk. They didn't even make the playoffs let alone win a playoff series.
@@jethrojacinto2798 And I just explained all of that. You literally just used the argument I just made fun of. Look at the team and the players on it
@@jethrojacinto2798 How about go look at their record or run differential in the final two months of the season
The Mariners deserved better too in 2021.
Also, in 2002 and 2003 they won 93 games and still missed the playoffs.
yeah hopefully both teams make the playoffs next year 🤞
The Mariners are just the unluckiest baseball franchise in recent memory. They managed to win 90 games right when the AL East became the 1st division to ever have 4 90 win teams. Even more unlucky, they also had a record setting offense in 1996 and also somehow missed the playoffs.
Well yeah but there was only one wildcard back then. The dodgers that same year had 92 wins and missed the playoffs too. The Mariners got 93 wins again and missed the playoffs again the very next year, and then Cleveland did it in 2005. It wasn't entirely uncommon.
@@shoukatsukai not to mention 116 wins in 2001 only to lose to the Yankees
@@legochickenguy4938 And if you want to go a step further, before the wild cards came in, in 1993 the San Francisco Giants won 103 games and missed the playoffs -- because Atlanta won 104 games.
If any jays fan or anyone remembers the Marcus semien error, probably one of the worst I have ever seen which would have won us the game and get us to the playoffs
I remember the bullpen coughing up so many games, and I remember Semien winning us enough games that I would never paint any part of this season as Semien did something that made us not make playoffs. You could point to any single loss and say thats the loss that made us miss, but doing so would be crazy lol.
But that’s just part of normal baseball. We’ve won games we may not have but for errors made by the other team too. Picking at those types of in game scenarios is meaningless unless you can show there were factors that only the Jays faced but the other teams did not. To me the single biggest factor in the Jays not making the playoffs isn’t injuries or a sucky bp or a terrible error at key moments (every team faces those), but the fact the Jays played essentially nothing but away games for more than the first half of the season. There’s at least an extra win in there somewhere if the schedule had been normal (probably more but I’m being conservative for the sake of argument). No other team in baseball had to deal with that.
Thats the one game I always remember
I always say it’s death by a thousand cuts in baseball. We did not make it by one game yes however their where multiple games that we could’ve won and didn’t that’s just the one that stands out.
Remember it very well. Was sitting lower level first base side when Semien got the ball. Thought, this game is over and stared in disbelief as the throw to first played out in front of me. My eyes couldn't believe what they'd just witnessed. Sat there in numbed silence.
I’ve been a jays fan since I was a kid (I’m 26) and I barely had friends who likes baseball cause it was “boring” and “slow” but it didn’t bother me, I still supported. This 2021 run for that last WC spot was so amazing for the city’s baseball fans that it eventually brought in people who weren’t fans, aka my friends. We all watched all the September games together on discord and were pumped each win and we obviously wanted the jays to make it. Unfortunately, we know the results but I only see this team going up. Thanks for the jays coverage! Keep it up
We're 2-0 so far 😎
America deserved the Mariners
Canada deserved the Jays
What did we get? 2015 NL Wild Card 2: Electric Boogaloo
Screw Rafael Devers. If he didn't hit that go ahead home run against the Nationals, at least the Jays would've made the playoffs. Mariners could've had a chance as well.
On October 3, 2021 I was just coming back to my university after visiting my cousins for the weekend. I went to the Aldershot train station in Burlington, Ontario, a city in the Greater Toronto Area. When I got there I saw a sea of blue jerseys and baseball caps (Never gonna forget the shirt asking me "Who's your Vladdy?") all heading on the train to Union Station to get to the Rogers Centre to watch our team play what might be their final game.
As soon as I got back to my room, I opened my barely functional MacBook and brand new laptop to try to play all three final regular season games at once. I watched as the first baseball team I had ever followed all walked back to the clubhouse proud of their sweep and hopeful of their playoff prospects. What followed that night was me staring at my ceiling both sad and frustrated as the team that got me through the worst of a pandemic and that despite relocating three times in one season managed to miss the playoffs by exactly one loss.
This team of baseball boys really meant a lot more to me than I thought. Watching this video made me realize that. Through how it helped me connect to my recently deceased father in the months before his passing, to helping me adjust to my new life as a university student, the 2021 Toronto Blue Jays will always have a place in my heart and they truly deserved better.
Thank you for reading this far if you still are.
As a Sox fan, I feel, Boston deserved the playoffs but the 200 run diff Jays deserved to win the division
Sox def deserved a spot I mean we went decently far too
Man, I saw that Devers home run and the Nationals blow that lead and was so disheartened as a Jays fan. I can just imagine how the Jays players reacted to that.
That’s how good the AL East was. Absolutely unreal.
Last year feels like the season that got away. Hopefully they can keep building going into next year
I love that “clutchness” is now quantifiable.
Without a doubt the best team I've ever seen that never made the Postseason. Their offense was absolutely lethal. Their pitching was underrated too. Sure, their bullpen could use some work, but Nate Pearson is coming back and should help out the staff even more, forcing someone to a relief role, and they even have more promising arms in the minors. This team is a favorite of mine to be the next potential dynasty over the next couple seasons. I had previously picked the Chicago White Sox but I don't think they're as strong as Toronto.
That Semien error vs Detroit will always haunt me...
I’ve been playing as the jays on mlb 21 for March to October to try and rewrite the season in my head at least 😅 made it in just ahead of the Yankees and also managed to trade for Scherzer
That rotation with Gausman, Ryu, Manoah, Berrios, Pearson looks super solid for this coming year
Ryu is washed up and Pearson is unable to play as usual.
@@Supermanfan99 I think injuries have taken a toll on Ryu...hoping he can bounce back
To be honest I hope Rays were playing Jays in 2021 playoffs, even when Rays lose in the end, it will be a better series than the Rays/Sox
Loved the home record in Toronto. They played on the road the 75% of the year. Hard for a younger team.
We forget the 2018 rays winning 90 games with one of the cheapest owners in the league and not going to the playoffs.
And that 2020 season when they went to the World Series where two of the dodgers player were paid the same amount of the whole rays team
I was at the game 162 in Toronto. We won and they had the bright idea of turning on the Red Sox game. Maybe 1 minutes later Devers hits a home run
I still remember that one. The moment they joined the Red Sox game in progress, Devers hit the homer.
I was there too. As soon as i saw the ball leave his bat i just got up and left
Fack Devers is so fucking clutch. Jays would be deadly with Devers.
Crazy to think, a team without several of its best and most promising players that won fewer games than the 4th place team in the AL East won the world series. Baseball everybody.
...and got swept 6-0 on the season by that same 4th-place team.
@@Math.Bandit Yup TOR Jays
I speak for the Washington Nationals when I say, I’m truly sorry Toronto :(
I don't know what was worse: Giving the Jays Brad Hand, Riley Adams burning the Jays with 3 hits in 1 game (Riley had 3 hits TOTAL with the Jays), or getting swept to the Red Sox including blowing a 5-1 lead.
@@ForceofNature99 Obviously getting swept by the Redsox lol
AL East is a very tough division. To finish with 91 wins is an amazing accomplishment.
I mostly just started watching the games after they moved but now im a huge blue jays fan and seeing all of this makes me happy but at the same time it hurts
Baseball is unfair
Blue Jays: 91 RS wins, missed playoffs
Braves: 88 RS wins, won World Series
Imagine how many wins the Jays would have playing in the central division...
@@williboldt6701 Or the NL East... Jays swept the Braves 6 games to 0.
I was hoping for San Diego vs Toronto World Series. Two young fun teams to watch BUT both fell short. Regardless I went out of my way to watch them last year. I also really enjoy listening to the Padres broadcast. They have a really good crew. Blue jays…..buck martinez was here in Baltimore before Toronto and I’m glad he’s enjoying himself there.
For those that didn’t know, T mobile was gives away free mlb tv subscriptions through their T-Mobile Tuesday promotion at the beginning of each year. So that made it easy to watch other teams but of course there’s the ridiculous local blackouts. Nothing that a vpn can’t fix though. I don’t know how this lockout mess will effect that. Oh well, just thought I mention it.
Mariners and Blue Jays deserve a playoff clinch next year 👏👏👏
The 2021 Blue Jays were kind of the opposite of the 2016 Rangers in how their season played out. The Rangers led the American League in wins that year, never really played much of the season outside of first place in the AL West, and went 32-11 in one-run games. They were extremely clutch that season, but they suffered from an opposite issue. While the Blue Jays were blowing teams out--which inflated their run differential--the Rangers would lose games big, which left them with a poor +8 run differential. When they won, the games were pretty close, and when they lost, they were getting the brakes blown off them. This formula worked until they faced the Blue Jays in an ALDS rematch. It exposed them for being a bit too lucky during the regular season, as they came out unprepared and sloppy - at least in game one. They would eventually get swept. It's so interesting to me when you examine a team's strengths and weaknesses and how that compares similarly to other teams from past seasons. Man, I really love this sport.
All four teams in the AL East are capable of winning the division this year. It's going to be a fun year. Now let's get this lockout over and done with!
That is the beauty of professional sports, you get what you deserve. If they'd deserved playoffs, they would've made the playoffs.
The way team played at end of year maybe made people forget how many games our bullpen gave away earlier in season. How much team struggled offensively at times without Springer in lineup, even while Vlad was crushing.
Injuries happen. If they'd played better and had better luck, they showed that when everything came together at end of year, they were as good or better than other playoff teams.
I mean all of these points are legit reasons as why the Jays could have been better, but a big thing not really talked about is that they are in a division with the Yankees, Red Sox and now the seemingly always good Rays and with the stupid playoff design being divisional instead of like top 8 of the conference, it's just an extremely tough division to be in. I would much rather change it to a top 8 conference finish with either less regular season games or shorter playoff series instead of the divisions. I think we're missing out on more exciting baseball this way!
Can you imagine if the NBA based the playoffs on division standings as opposed to conference standings? They'd lose a lot of popularity. The MLB has the stupidest playoff format.
The blue Jay's finished with just one more win than the Mariners, despite a run differential over 200 runs better, crazy
lol didn’t realize until you pointed that out. Wow.
Yeah, but their Fun Differential was far lower.
honestly it was fun watch them yanks boston and mariners all have a huge fight for playoff spots and even playing eachother all the time in the last month
so i was at the last game against baltamore and they put the Washington Boston game on the big screen and the game finished just before the walk off was and there was a hole world of disappointment in the statium
IMO, they were the most complete team in the AL last year.
Seattle mariners.
@@andrewschoen8940 lmaoooo
@@andrewschoen8940 no.
@@andrewschoen8940 fun differential
Jays had everything, but unfortunately a little thing called a bullpen. 20+ blown games...
That was a good vid. Just subbed, keep up the good work! 👍
I wish you mentioned that the rays intentionally lost to the Yankees to let the weaker team into the postseason, the rays are smart, if they were trying to win that last game don't you think they would've walked judge in the bottom of the ninth with runners on 2nd and 3rd and one out? That's the most clear cut intentional walk I've ever seen, but the rays aren't stupid, they recognized that losing was better for them
october 3rd 2021 my most all-around heartbreaking day as a sports fan and i'm not even that much of a baseball fan
And this is y I’m scared of the BlueJays the most as a Yankees fan because now with the families of the players securely in Toronto the core is going to go off
All those 4th and 5th inning pulls from Charlie destroyed the bullpen TWICE. When he let the starting pitchers stretch out, the team was amazing.
Storm you have no idea how happy it made me when you used the clutch stat
Like this was a season where we got done in by a tough division, and a few key losses.
But the fact that the Jays did all this while bouncing between 3 different home ballparks this year was impressive. The Brightside is this team has a great future.
I agree on Toronto but how bout Seattle, they busted their ass the final weekend for nothing.
The Blue Jays probably could of beat The Red Sox or Yankees in the WC game.. Seattle wouldn't have a chance
@@kennygourmet How do ya figure?
@@CharmCityGamer The Jays underperformed their expected record by 10 games. The Mariners overperformed by 10 games. They were pretenders, they Jays werent.
@@BnMProductions11 Forgive my ignorance but if you win, how do you overperform?
Jays biggest problem is the pitching. They might have some pitching, bullpen wise is horrible and closer too
Bears mentioning that their bullpen wasn't necessarily bad to start the season, but lengthy injuries to a number of relief pitchers will do you in, especially when you're left with guys like Hand and Dolis to clean up games. Romano is the exception to this, and I'm grateful he's a consistent closer for the Jays, but they didn't have many healthy guys in their rotation for a number of games.
They have a number of things going for them this year - a single home stadium to play in, a Golden Glove third baseman with Chapman, the additions of Gausman and Kikuchi on the mound, the core group of young guys is intact, and they'll have Springer for the full season. The loss of Semien did hurt, but if his batting record is replicable with the Rangers, more power to him, but I don't see him hitting as many HRs with their club. This team is hungry, and they have a healthy roster of strong talent. If they don't make it to the playoffs this year, something catastrophic has to happen to prevent them from succeeding.
Goes to show you can have a top tier roster and sometimes in baseball that simply doesn’t matter. As a Mariners fan I feel for them given we’ve done this multiple times
that’s kind of like the dodgers this year
@@quinnsnyder2442 Dodgers lost bc of injuries imo
I wouldn't say we've done this multiple times. I can't honestly say that since 2001 we've had a team as good as the Jays were this year. Similarly during this playoff drought we only won 90 games 3 times and 2 of those were in 2002 and 2003. Luckily the future looks bright with guys like JP, Flexen, and Mitch leading the way
they definitely were playoff ready, so many tough loses that proved to be costly in the end.
This team is so underrated despite losing Semien and ray. Their rotation is great and adding Gausman makes it even better. We all know their ability to take pitchers and make the good. They still have a great team with bichette, springer, Guerrero jr, gurriel, etc. The mariners and the blue jays are both RIGHT THERE. BARELY not in the playoffs. I think both teams will improve even more in the offseason.
Let's go 2022 Blue Jays Go!
The World Series winning Braves had an 88-73 record, and the Blue Jays had a 91-71 record and didn’t even get in the playoffs. That’s just bad luck.
It is bad luck for sure, luck of the draw with divisions. The Braves had terrible luck too with injuries, having their whole outfield replaced by journeyman most the year and Fried/Anderson going on the IL numerous times, as well as Soroka again missing the year. The 88 win Braves wasn’t the same team as after the all star break; after the break they put together one of the best records in baseball.
Bad pitching from Rafael Dolis. Man this guy lost many games for the Jays.
They went from a team that deserved better to deserve nothing so very quick.
I’m glad the Jays clinched again but we need results now. No excuses. Get it done.
Chatwood walking 4 straight batters with no one warming up in the bullpen is where I pin this entire season on :( I remember that game as vividly as the A's walk off (and I was live at the A's walk off one lol)
I can count more let downs from Dolis than Chatwood.
There are so many places where you can play the "what if game" to get that extra win for game 163 vs the Red Sox. It hurts even more when you realize that the Red Sox made it to the ALCS and the Jays could have done the same if they made the playoffs
The same bullpen that was their strength only a year earlier cost them a playoff appearance. It was frustrating to watch so many blown wins
There isn't much mystery here. Their bullpen blew more leads than I can ever remember in a season, they had horrible injuries plague them all year (springer, waguespeck, romero, the list goes on and on). Not to mention getting boo'd at "home" in buffalo and dunedin games, it's a miracle we got 91 wins. So much bad luck.
It is a bit staggering to see just how polar opposite the jays were to the Ms that year. Not only in one run and extra inning games, but also while the jays could pull off some blowout wins, a key reason the Ms run differential was so bad was because of some key blowout loses (if you take away just 3 games from that 2021 season, the differential would've gone from -50 to a much less horrifying -20).
And both teams in 2022 would go on to face each other in the playoffs in a game where the jays lost due to their bullpen, and the Ms came through thanks to clutch hitting that pulled them back from a seven run deficit, culminating in a one-run win. Just... wow.
Nice Vid!
Thank you!
Great video man!
If the jays don’t trade for hand they’re in bc he blew games for them and the person who they they traded away for him had an insane hit to make the jays lose
Dolis is the guy to blame.
Right
After watching this and the recent Free Agency signings that the Blue Jays made, I think the Red Sox and Yankees have awaken a monster in their division
The end of last season was devastating. Just got screwed out of a couple games at the end. One of the games was the worst umping I've ever seen. Ron Kulpa. The bad series against Texas. 1 game out is tough.
This might be a tall ask but I’d love to see a video on the offensive production from the cubs offense in the second half compared to the cubs offense in the first
This has to be one of the best teams ever to not make the playoffs. AL Cy winner, 2 MVP runner ups, 4 players with 100+ RBIs 4 all stars (should’ve been 5) and one of the stronger rotations in the AL
The 2022 BJays are coming around, things seem to be falling in to place for them.
I think next, you need to make a video about the 2021 Mariners, who were also an anomaly, but in a MUCH different way.
I'm so ready for baseball season
I was at game 162. Weirdest atmosphere ever it was a blowout early on and everyone was watching streams of the other games on their phones
Why would I put myself through this again as a Blue Jays fan
lol Jays shoulda had a 115 win season...lol unreal...they are gunna be a force going forward....if they go hard in on Jose Ramirez watch out...lol
Seminar walkout Homer with the 6 run comeback and grand slam was probably the best bluejays game I've ever watched
Other then the 7th inning against Texas 😂😂😂
As a Giants I kept saying they were the team beat if they made the postseason. The offense was explosive.
There should be some win threshold to automatically make the playoffs regardless of standing in your division. I remember a few years back where the Giants had about 100 wins and didn’t make the playoffs. If the leagues have to cut back a few games of the regular season to accommodate an expanded playoffs, so be it. But to have an outstanding season in terms of wins and not make the playoffs - ridiculous.
Great content!!
No mention of the fact that they played in the best division in MLB??? In the NL east, they would have comfortably finished first. The Braves won the WS after winning just 88 games. This is a constant problem in MLB -- the divisions are not all equal in competetiveness, and the AL east almost always has the best teams.
After that season, I never want to hear Jays media (looking directly at you, Mike Wilner) say "it's early" after early season losses, ever again.
Every game matters.
@SportStorm I really would like to hear your thoughts on the team now that they' ve signed Chapman?
Well it’s hard when there are better teams that don’t fall apart when it comes to September.
This team was absolutely loaded
My Indians won 93 games in 2019 and missed the playoffs 🥲
I WONDER HOW THE GUARDIANS WILL DO
I wish they were in the braves division
1985 Yankees 97 wins
1993 SF giants 103 win
No playoffs
Sometimes you come up short for various reasons. We all know what this was about.
The 96 win Jays team from '86 is awaiting your video on them, please and thank you.
The situation with Semien is probably solved with just putting Biggio at 2nd. He didnt like playing 3rd and had a lot of struggles and while he had a harsh 2020-2021 he can bounce back and be a dark horse deceptive hitter... and hes still young. Gausman is going to be a great replacement for Ray. But yeah... we needed to win the games we should have won. I look at the series against the Tigers for example. Can't rely on other teams to finish the job for you. Win the games. But man was an incredible season and if all goes right whenever we have a next season they should be ready to compete for a title.
Go Jays Go! 2022 Champs
Al east is crazy good
the average playoff team past few years seems to be 100+ dodgers, astros(*), red sox.
Get that bullpen some help, and they’ll be World Series contenders in 2022.
I don’t think ppl realized how good we were down the stretch. Had the szn been a week longer we would have made the playoffs
Had the Jays been at Rogers Centre all season; What's 25-11 extrapolated over 82 home games...?
Crazy the Jays had a better record than the Braves who won the WS but didn’t even make the playoffs.
BTW, I think you should do a video coverage the 2021 Braves. Personally, as a fan I thought they should’ve sold at the deadline. Truly glad they didn’t.
Jays were also 6-0 vs. the Braves.
I'm glad people are acknowledging the season. It was a heartbreaking ending really. Things could have gone differently with 1 or 2 more wins. Also SCREW BRAD HAND AND HIS BULLSHIT.
@@Dra90nGamer chatwood may have self destructed at the end of the season, but at the start while romano was injured he and Dolis were the only two somewhat competent relivers the Jays had in April and May. Hand was only bad and the Jays gave up a prospect to get him.
@@thunderstruck560 And that "prospect" burned the Jays with 3 hits in one game for the Nats.
If Cavan Biggio can take a big step forward from what we’ve seen from him initially, he could be that Semien replacement.
Can you do a video on the 2016 Cubs?
*Sad Blue Jays fan noises intensify*
5:10 ah, the ol' catcher free lineup
They are just in a really competitive division... always seems to be 2 teams above them regardless of how well they play