It's close, but we think Bo edges out Springer for Blue Jays MVP in August

Despite losing some ground in the standings, the Toronto Blue Jays went 15-12 in August. Normally, playing .556 baseball would be cause for celebration, but not in the AL East when any of the other four teams are seemingly always lurking around the corner, waiting to strike. In 2025, that's the Red Sox and the Yankees who are closing in on erasing the Blue Jays division lead.

However, the Blue Jays still entered the final month of the regular season in first place and and the majority of that success has to go to the lineup, who scored 155 runs over those 27 games, the most they have scored in any month this season. Leading the way in that lineup are none other than Bo Bichette and George Springer.

It's close, but we think Bo edges out Springer for Blue Jays MVP in August

Bichette continues to lead the league with 176 hits (entering Tuesday's games) and he added a team high 40 base-knocks in 120 plate appearances in August, 11 of them went for extra bases. His .367 average led the team, and he got on base at a .425 clip, while slugging .523 and producing an OPS of .948 and had a BABIP of .398 with a wRC+ of 167.

He got on base in all but two games he played in, and had 11 walks compared to 13 strikeouts, while driving in 19 RBIs and scoring 20 runs. 13 of his games were multi-hit efforts. He added 0.98 WPA while his clutch rating for the month was rated at 0.37, the second highest on the team behind Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (0.62).

Springer on the other hand had some better numbers and metrics than Bichette, but played in just 14 of the teams 27 games, and getting only 64 at-bats compared to Bichettes 120. However, that's not to diminish what Springer did when he returned healthy to the lineup. Springer's ISO was an outstanding .357, and his wRC+ sat at 217. He had an OBP of .438, .714 SLG, and .350 BABIP.

Springer was second on the team in home runs for the month with six, tied with Guerrero Jr. and just behind Daulton Varsho's seven. He drove in 11 RBI, scored 18 runs and even stole three bases adding a full 1.0 fWAR, just behind Bichettes 1.2 fWAR. The one knock is that he didn't do any damage in the clutch with a -0.57 clutch rating, but still added 0.24 WPA.

Had Springer been healthy the whole month there's no reason to think he wouldn't have put up even better numbers, but we have to give it to Bichette ever so slightly. Bichette's month was also historic for a player at his position. OptaSTATS shared on X, that he is one of three primary shortstops who recorded at least 40 hits, 20 runs scored and 15 RBI this month. The others are Trea Turner of the Philadelphia Phillies and Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets.

Not bad company to be in for Bichette who also got his September off to a hot start, hitting a two run home run in the top of the ninth inning to give the Blue Jays the lead (briefly) on Monday against the Reds. Toronto fans will hope both Bichette and Springer can maintain this level of production in the regular seasons' final month.