Blue Jays worst-to-first turn around one of the best stories in baseball in 2025

It didn't end the way the Toronto Blue Jays and their fans were hoping, but that shouldn't deter anyone from celebrating what was a phenomenal season in Toronto. The 2025 Blue Jays got farther than any other team before them in 30+ years and it came in one of the most unlikely fashions.

The year before, the Blue Jays were dead last in the AL East and it looked like they were about to lose one of the best home grown players in franchise history. But as Will Leitch writes on MLB.com, the worst-to-first turnaround was one of the best stories in all of baseball in 2025.

Blue Jays worst-to-first turn around one of the best stories in baseball in 2025

Leitch ranked the top ten stories from last year, and gave the Blue Jays the number four spot. This follows the Dodgers repeating as World Series champs, Cal Raleigh's 60 home run season, and Shohei Ohtani's three home runs hit / 10 strikeouts thrown game in the NLCS - which was dubbed "The greatest game ever."

The Blue Jays season followed on that list with Leitch writing, "After a last-place finish in 2024 that had many Jays fans (and many people around baseball) wondering if they were going to have to break up this roster, the team signed beloved star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to a contract extension shortly after the season began … and took off not long afterward. Next thing you knew, they’d cruised to an AL East title, blitzed the Yankees in the ALDS, won an epic ALCS against the Mariners to reach their first World Series in 32 years and got this close (twice! maybe more than twice!) to winning the World Series."

This was the only Blue Jays mention on the list, but it was a well deserved mention. Toronto re-ignited a fan base that was desperate for some success and they have now set the bar for the next few season's and beyond.