John Schneider put the Blue Jays in a hole . Trey Yesavage will try to pull them out of it.

And really, who would you rather be on this fine elimination game day? The chuckleheaded manager who apparently can’t read the room, the game or the bullpen — surely viewed dimly by his players, even though not a harsh word will pass their lips publicly — or the 22-year-old rookie pitcher upon whose shoulders the entire Jays season is now resting.

In a whirlwind of big moments, across a Major League Baseball career that now spans all of 34 days and is studded mostly with razzle-dazzle highs but also a couple of stub-your-toe lows, Yesavage has been exactly as he put it, with epigrammatic brilliance, a fortnight ago: “I’m built for this.’’

The strapping right-hander may have integrated himself r

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