Now Playing in the South Bronx

I like what the Blue Jays did at the deadline. They added two front-line players they really needed, in a situation in which two impact talents have the leverage to matter even in 60 games. (The Tulowitzki addition was almost as important defensively as offensively; my initial reaction after hearing the trade was wondering if the prodigal son could return to Flushing, but then I looked up Reyes’s steadily deteriorating fielding stats.) They may not track down the Yankees — given how wrong I was about New York at the beginning of the season, I guess I’m not allowed to be skeptical about whether an offense driven largely by exceptional years by injury-prone old guys is going to stay afloat until the end of September. But given that the Blue Jays have in fact been 70 runs better than the Yankees already I like their chances, and at a minimum they’ve almost certainly got one of the wild cards locked up. It would be nice to see them in the postseason for a change.