When the baseball season began, Louis Varland was pitching in Minnesota, Mason Fluharty was throwing in Buffalo along with Eric Lauer and Braydon Fisher, and Seranthony Dominguez was tossing the ball in Baltimore.

None of them were heading to any kind of playoffs.

When the baseball season began, Ernie Clement wasn’t sure what position he’d be playing, Nathan Lukes didn’t know if he’d be playing or for how long in the big leagues, Addison Barger was in the minors and Myles Straw was a bad contract that  arrived from Cleveland because the Jays needed cash.

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None of them thought much about heading to the post-season.

Maybe John Schneider, the manager, believed before anyone else could see it, that the Blue Jays could finish first

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