text: I don't understand why sports writers continue to state that there were high expectations going into the 2017 Major League Baseball season for the Toronto Blue Jays. The 2016 squad already showed deficiencies from the 2015 team which came up short in the American League Championships Series. We had lost Dickey, Saunders and Enarncion. No serious baseball fan thought that Bautista would return to career high stats. We knew that Travis was questionable. Tulowitzki was fragile. And left field was practically vacant going into the season. You couldn't seriously believe that the starting rotation would repeat their success from 2016. Stroman continues to be marketed as an ace pitcher, but still behaves like a child on the mound. That's not to say that he lacks talent or ambition. He clearly has both. But he isn't Halladay, Stieb or Clemens. Maybe one day. But right now he is far from it. I suspected a down season. I didn't go into the season with high expectations. Hope for sure.