It felt like a fever dream when the move was first announced; Shane Bieber is joining the Toronto Blue Jays. That headline punctuated a trade deadline where the Blue Jays bolstered their team with some very under the radar moves, maybe none more than picking up a former Cy Young award winner who was, at the time, still recovering from Tommy John surgery.
"I know that the guys understand where we're at as far as the opportunity we have," Roberts said. "And yeah, I would expect them to take it and run and seize the opportunity, without me having to kind of bring it to light. I mean, it's right there. This is a great opportunity that we have, and you got to embrace it. You got to want to be out there. You got to have fun competing. And it just seems like the last couple nights, at some points it was an unrecognizable ballclub. We still got a lot of talent. We're still in a decent spot, but we've got to go play. We got to play better. We do."