I don't doubt the Blue Jays can be a pretty good team next season, and I also agree that the Forever NY-Bos #1-#2 Punch broke up long ago (even if few noticed).
So the AL East is more competitive than it has been over the past decade and a half.
But I'm simply not impressed Toronto got a bunch of expensive busts from a last place team:
"BEST LINEUP: TORONTO BLUE JAYS
The additions of Jose Reyes and Emilio Bonifacio, who are part of the Jays' haul from Miami, inject speed into a power lineup. Toronto only had slugger Jose Bautista for 92 games last season because of injury, but they still managed to finish fifth in the AL with 198 home runs. Cabrera, who batted .346 last season in San Francisco before serving a 50-game suspension for failing a drug test, gives the Jays a decent on-base threat, assuming he can even approach the .390 OBP he had last year.
Reyes and Cabrera can hit at the top of the order and be followed by Bautista, Encarnacion, Colby Rasmus (23 HRs last year) and potential star Brett Lawrie can bat next and the Jays can expect production from a bottom third of Adam Lind, J.P. Arencibia and Bonifacio.
Reyes is overrated. Bonifacio isn't that good. Melky will be off steroids. Bautista will get hurt again.
After all of these moves, I think the Yankees will probably have the best lineup, best defense, and best bullpen in the AL East next season.
Besides, before you move Toronto into AL East contention, consider the importance of the following: Pitching.
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