Ranking the 10 best Blue Jays teams by regular season record

4. 1993: 95-67 (.586), 1st AL East

Following up on the team's first World Series title in 1992, the 1993 Blue Jays won one less game but had just as successful a season. SkyDome was the place to be in the summer of 1993. The fans came out in droves, setting a franchise-high attendance mark of 4,057,947, the second-best in the majors that year.

Legendary general manager Pat Gillick brought in veteran hitter Paul Molitor in the offseason, creating the famous WAMCO lineup (White, Alomar, Molitor, Carter, Olerud), which gave opposing pitchers fits. Adding Ricky Henderson and bringing Tony Fernandez back partway through the season bolstered an already formidable roster for the stretch run, and the team finished with a top-three offense.

The 1993 Jays got hot at the right time, playing 46-27 baseball in the second half. They led the AL East for 105 days and won 17 of their final 21 games, finishing seven games clear of the Yankees. They took care of the Chicago White Sox in six games in the ALCS before dispatching the Philadelphia Phillies in six games to claim the team's second straight World Series title.

The magical season was capped off in the best way possible, thanks to Joe Carter's heroics:

3. 1987: 96-66 (.593), 2nd AL East

While the 1987 Blue Jays team ranks third on this list with a 96-66 record and a second-place finish in the AL East, there's an alternate universe in which they reached 100 wins and went to the postseason as division champions. Unfortunately, an epic 0-7 collapse in the final week of the season let the Detroit Tigers come back from a 3.5-game deficit and win the division.

Spearheaded by Jimmy Key, this version of the team boasted one of the top pitching staffs in baseball with the third-best ERA at 3.74. Key went 17-8 and finished second in AL Cy Young voting after leading the majors with a 2.76 ERA, 164 ERA+ and 1.06 WHIP over 261 innings. The explosive offense, led by George Bell's 134-RBI AL MVP campaign, put up the third-most runs, second-most home runs and second-best OPS in the majors behind the pesky Tigers.

After such a successful season, which came on the heels of the 1985 playoff team, the 1987 edition of the Blue Jays was a wasted opportunity if there ever was one.