I Want Grandy

(Music Pun #9. The Bow Wow Wow Version.)

Well, how about that. Curtis Granderson's having a fantastic season. The only downside of that is the fact that he's doing so in a Blue Jays uniform.

And look, the Blue Jays hatred has gone down a bit for me this year...mainly because they're only having an 'okay' year. A lot of their best guys are injured, a ton of trusted starters are batting under the Mendoza line, and most of their star pitchers are giving up a lot of runs. While they're definitely better off than they were last year, the Jays are only barely over .500, and in a division where the main conflict concerns two mega-teams are ones that are not the Toronto Blue Jays.

Luckily, regardless of the general meh-ness of the team, they still have Curtis Granderson, who, at 37, is having one of his best seasons in years, and playing the outfield pretty well while focusing more on average than on home runs. Also, Kevin Pillar is doing the team-carrying that we all thought Josh Donaldson would still be doing at this point, and Yangervis Solarte is back to his old tricks. Hell, even the bullpen has been wholly fantastic this year, with a lot of former bit-players from mega-teams, like John Axford, Seung-Hwan Oh and Tyler Clippard,  coming together to create some great late-inning ball.

This is a flawed team, and I don't know how much they're going to accomplish...but, on the plus side, they still have Curtis Granderson, and that'll be enough for me when I head to Rogers Centre in a month.

Coming Tomorrow- Well, over the last two seasons he's calmed down quite a bit...and, concurrently, so has his once-1st-place team.