Toronto Blue Jays Off to Best Start in Major League Baseball

The Toronto Blue Jays are on top of the American League East with a 5-1 record.
The Blue Jays are hot and they are enjoying a run that has them in first place in the East, first place in the American League, and ahead of everybody in the National League, too.

Toronto entered this season without great expectations. The most optimistic Blue Jay watchers are predicting 85 wins this season. The Jays are off to one of its best starts this decade.

With a win over the Indians on Saturday, the Blue Jays improved to 5-1, the best since 2001, when they started with an identical record.

If Toronto wins on Sunday to complete a three-game series sweep over Cleveland, the Jays would move to a 6-1 mark for the first time since 1994.

The Jays have two rookies in the rotation and another starter who missed rookie status by just 15 innings. Their closer owns an ERA of 21.60.


The Jays are averaging seven runs per game, have scored 42 times in six games, have 66 hits, and nine home runs.

It took them eight games to score their 43rd and nine games to get that many hits last year.

The Jays did not spend half a billion dollars on a few players, like the New York Yankees, who now sit in third place in the East, behind both Baltimore and Toronto. Read More