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The Toronto Blue Jays are remaking themselves on the fly this offseason.
R.A. Dickey is just the latest fortification; that follows the looting of the Miami Marlins’ roster for Jose Reyes and Co. last month.
“Welcome to the party,” says the rest of the American League East.
That is, the rest of the division that isn’t the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. The Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays finally have planted their feet, stopped running away and told their overlords, “Enough.”
No more watching the East play out as the Big Two and the Little Three. No more AL Beast and AL Least.
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