It’s been so long, and the baseball industry has changed so much, that already the memories of the Blue Jays ’ championships in 1992 and 1993 are a little hazy.

So comparing the feelings of those days with this remarkably surprising championship charge by the 2025 Jays is both a little tricky and potentially misleading. We do know that the ‘92 and ‘93 Jays were a star-studded powerhouse built with the biggest payroll in baseball at that time, around $50 million.

After winning in ‘92, the WAMCO-fuelled Jays were even more powerful the next year. They were expected to win. That team was very similar to this year’s Los Angeles Dodgers, in other words.

At the time, with baseball experiencing intense labour pains, some understood the Jays success to represent Canada’s ability to compete wi

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