However, the Blue Jays are still looking for help as Thursday’s MLB Trade Deadline approaches, via MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson. • Blue Jays are looking for pitching, ideally multiple. • Toronto has a *rare* combo of money, ‘now’ players and prospects

The Toronto Blue Jays have a comfortable lead atop the AL East, a year after trading away several established players.

In the ninth, Bo Bichette broke a scoreless tie in the eighth inning with a two-run single. The Blue Jays added insurance in the ninth inning with three home runs. Nathan Lukes, George Springer, and Vladimir Guerrero all went deep. It was the 18th of the season for Springer.

Daulton Varsho is in his third season with the Toronto Blue Jays after making his MLB debut for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2020. In the 2022 offseason, the Diamondbacks traded Varsho to the Blue Jays in exchange for catcher Gabriel Moreno and outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr.

The Toronto Blue Jays have been one of the best teams in baseball for quite some time now and have seen their lead in the American League East begin to grow.

The last time the Blue Jays were atop MLB this late in the season was 1992, according to Sportsnet. The 1992 season was the first of consecutive World Series championships for Toronto, so this is quite the good omen.

And now they'll head to August at No. 1. After a loss on May 27, the Blue Jays were 26-28 and eight games out of first place in the AL East. We shouldn't spend a ton of time looking at wild-card standings in May,