Make or break time for Blue Jays who can't afford to collapse

According to FanGraphs, a regularly visited baseball website that provides all kinds of meaningful and meaningless stats, the Blue Jays have a 95.5% chance of appearing in the post-season.

Given the club sits atop the AL East and trails only Detroit for the best record in the division with 34 games remaining in the regular season, failure to advance to baseball’s second season amounts to a 100% embarrassment.

A series loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence as a three-game set in Miami begins Friday night, an occasion that will usher in the debut of former Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber and the expected return of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., whose left hamstring inflammation forced him to leave the series opener at PNC Park.

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