Report-Blue Jays president says ’24 season is….

After entering the 2024 season with great expectations, Toronto Blue Jays president and CEO Mark Shapiro is not happy about a team that’s languishing in last place in the American League East and already looking toward next year. But that doesn’t mean that big changes are on the horizon. “I’m not fixated on language, terming it a rebuild, terming it retool,” Shapiro told reporters Wednesday. “We just need to get better. In the nine seasons I’ve been through, this is the biggest disconnect from expectations. “It doesn’t mean we haven’t had difficult endings to seasons and it doesn’t mean we haven’t had seasons where we knew we were going to have a challenge competing, but this has been, by far, the biggest disconnect from our

The Blue Jays are 52-62 and are 15½ games out of the division lead — 11 games from a wild-card spot — entering Thursday’s games. They kept cornerstones Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette rather than dealing them away at the trade deadline. The club has been trying to move under the $237 million tax threshold after starting the season with a $244 million payroll.