In 2012, myself and everyone else on the planet predicted that the Blue Jays would win the AL East. And I've been critical of a few players all season.
Heading into October: Red Sox are in first place, Blue Jays sucked, and despite some challenging times throughout the course of the year, players like Napoli and Salty have put in a decent season.
So, amends must be made. People like myself must be punished. Going forward, this means I won't be ranting about Napoli or Salty that much -- a fair punishment, because this takes away half of my writing topics. I won't even point out Salty's question defense... He has been catching more baserunners lately, though I'm not sure how much responsibility he bares for the wild pitch that placed the eventual winning run on third last night. I watched the pitch from the Bud Deck and can't find a video highlight. I know it was scored as a wild pitch, but I didn't have the greatest view and wanted to see the TV shot.
Regardless, I'm punished so I can only comment on how I can't comment on that. Like 2004, this 2013 roster has a lot of players turning in unexpected career years (Koji, Carp, Nava, the emergence of Iglesias; and hell, Gomes almost counts since he's had only two better seasons). In spring training, nobody was thinking "Carp is gonna kill it!" when he finally won a roster spot over Lyle Overbay. And nobody thought "Koji is going to turn in one of the best seasons a closer has ever pitched!" with Bailey and Hanrahan starting the season in the bullpen. These performances are largely based on luck more than anything else; and I wouldn't expect to see them repeated.
But there's nothing like getting lucky in October. Let's hope their streaks continue.
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