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Time marches on, even if the 2023 Blue Jays season doesn't.

It’s mid-October, which means that a bunch of teams who aren’t the Toronto Blue Jays are still out there having fun and playing baseball. And, frankly, other than the whole no-longer-playing thing, it feels like little has changed since the season officially ended. The Jays are still a confounding mess, and they’re still being run by Mark Shapiro and—perhaps surprisingly—Ross Atkins.

So… uh… what exactly do we think of how it all turned out? Where does this team go from here? Where do we think it should go? What can be done to prevent the Vlad and Bo Era from ultimately ending up a failure? Or is it already too late?

Fun stuff to chew on until the offseason begins in earnest when the GM meetings open in Scottsdale on November 7th, huh? But we can at least do some of that chewing together.

The fact that it’s mid-October also means that it has been quite a while—two months, to be precise—since I last took a dip into the ‘ol mail bag and squared off with the many delights inside. Later on this week I’ll be doing it again.

So leave me your best thoughts and questions in the comments on this post!

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