Getty John Schneider on the field during the seventh inning in their MLB game against the Oakland Athletics. A few months ago, it looked like the Toronto Blue Jays were in one of the worst positions to be around Major League Baseball. With a below-average farm system, the big league team not playing as well as many expected, and other factors, including the fact that the Blue Jays haven’t been able to sign marquee free agents in recent years, it was tough to see how things would get better.