The first weekend of September is as good a time as any to serve notice of what type of baseball team you are.
And Yankee Stadium and all the frenzy it can bring with playoff implications at stake is as big a stage as there is with which to amplify it.
The Toronto Blue Jays seized that opportunity in a multitude of ways on Friday night in the Bronx, unleashing what had to be one of their most complete efforts of the season in a resounding statement of a 7-1 win over the sluggish New York Yankees.
The Blue Jays had no sympathy for their weary opponents, punishing them offensively while starter Kevin Gausman gave the type of performance that will undoubtedly make his team salivate about the possibilities of that right arm firing in October.
And then there was Vlad Guerrero Jr., who is he