The breathtaking season of the accidental Blue Jays heads toward September with a most unusual heartbeat.

The Jays may end up with the best record in the American League without a single MVP candidate, a single Cy Young candidate, a single rookie of the year candidate.

“Our MVP?” said manager John Schneider, likely winner of the manager of the year award, “the team.”

That may sound boring and cliched and everything you would expect from this unexpected season of stunning promise. But in this case, it’s absolutely true.

And it’s absolutely unusual.

When the Blue Jays won their first pennant in 1985, they had Dave Stieb pushing for Cy Young, Jesse Barfield and George Bell pushing for an MVP that was won by their current coach, Don Mattingly.

When they won the World Series in 1992, Joe

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