Blue Jays projected with 4th best chance to win World Series

They’ve come a long way.

Back in May, the Blue Jays were a struggling ball club, with a sub-.500 record and seemingly on the road to another mediocre season.

But they’ve since flipped the switch, sitting atop the American League East with the third-best record in Major League Baseball at 76-55 heading into the Minnesota Twins series starting Monday. Fans are already dreaming of a possible starting rotation for the first few games of the playoffs.

The numbers back their hopes of exciting times to come at Rogers Centre.

As of 4 p.m. Monday, with 31 regular season games left, Toronto is projected with a 99.7 per cent chance of making the playoffs, according to the respected stats site FanGraphs . It’s a big departure for a team that finished with a 74-88 record last year, and the