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I know what you鈥檙e thinking, 鈥渢he season hasn鈥檛 even started yet, how is that possible?鈥�

Well, if you鈥檝e been following what鈥檚 been happening with the Blue Jays in the (extremely) early going so far this season, you would understand.

This year was shaping up to be the year the Blue Jays could finally end their playoff drought.

They haven鈥檛 made the post-season since they won the World Series way back in 1993, when I was a year and a half old.

After the Kansas City Royals made the playoffs last year, and went all the way to game seven of the World Series, I do believe the Jays now hold the longest playoff drought in the Major Leagues.

I can hear Blue Jays fans groaning already.

The Jays made a couple of moves during the offseason, none bigger than trading third baseman Brett Lawrie, among others, to the Oakland Athletics for two time top-10 MVP candidate Josh Donaldson.

I remember being up in the broadcast booth at the Civic Centre when I checked twitter and saw the news of the trade.

I sent out a tweet about the potential lineup for the Jays this year, which sarcastically included their play-by-play announcer Buck Martinez batting ninth.

I don鈥檛 want to brag or anything, OK that鈥檚 a lie, but that tweet got 326 retweets and 236 favourites.

For once I understood what it was like to be funny.

Back to the issue at hand, Donaldson took a major step back in the batting average category last year from 2013, going from .301 to .255.

He also committed seven more errors at third base, dropping his MVP placing from fourth in 2013 to eighth in 2014.

The most important number to look at however, is games played.

Donaldson played in 158 games in each the past two seasons.

Brett Lawrie? 107 in 2013 and just 70 in 2014.

Lawrie is a player who really gives it his all every time the ball comes near him, almost to a fault.

I remember one specific incident when at Yankee Stadium when he reached over the railing into the camera well trying to catch a pop up, and instead plummeted about eight feet onto the cement resulting in a leg injury.

To recap, things I will miss about Lawrie: his intensity, his unbelievable plays at third base and his memorable freak out which saw him throw his helmet in front of an umpire that bounced and hit him.

Things I will not miss about Lawrie: his injuries and his ridiculous posts on social media. Although I suppose I could just unfollow him to get rid of those.

The Jays also traded longtime first baseman Adam Lind to Milwaukee for Marco Estrada to help with pitching.

Although taking a look at Estrada鈥檚 stats, I鈥檓 not sure how much he鈥檒l help.

Other notable moves saw them sign Justin Smoak, not re-sign Casey Jansen and sign catcher Russell Martin.

So how is this year almost already worse? Injuries.

Maybe Lawrie passed on his injury curse to the franchise before leaving, because newly acquired left-fielder Michael Saunders stepped on a hidden sprinkler while shagging fly balls and tore his meniscus.

He seems to be recovering quickly though, and might even be available for opening day.

Reminds me of last year when Maicer Izturis tore is ACL after tripping on the dugout stairs in April, ending his season.

Yes, you read that right.

Saunders鈥� injury wasn鈥檛 the worst of it, unfortunately.

Last week it was announced that Marcus Stroman, who pitched fantastically for the Blue Jays last year after being called up from the minors, would miss the entire 2015 season after he tore his ACL during a fielding drill.

Apparently he was running to field a ball during bunt drills and was called off by Donaldson, and when Stroman stopped to let Donaldson get the ball, he heard a pop.

That pop was is left knee, although it could have also been the hopes and dreams of Blue Jays fans across the country.

And while the injury news doesn鈥檛 exactly get worse after that, unless something happens to Jose Bautista while I鈥檓 writing this, it does get more humorous.

I was browsing twitter last weekend and read that outfielder Kevin Pillar was also injured.

Pillar is projected to platoon as the fourth outfielder this year.

His injury doesn鈥檛 sound serious, I saw he鈥檒l be shut down for about a week, but it鈥檚 the fashion in which he got injured that makes it so ridiculous.

Apparently Pillar sneezed, and strained his oblique.

How aggressive was this sneeze? I mean he really must have put a lot of effort into it. That might be the most Blue Jays thing that鈥檚 ever happened.

One positive is that Pillar now has a spot in the injury hall of fame alongside such players as Dustin Penner and Brent Sopel.

Penner was somehow injured while eating pancakes a few years ago, whereas Sopel hurt his back while bending over to pick up a cracker off the floor.

I鈥檝e spent lots of time running through potential ways to hurt yourself while eating pancakes, and I just can鈥檛 seem to find one.

Maybe teams should just keep their athletes away from food, and wrapped in bubble wrap at all time.

So now the Jays have an opening in the starting rotation, and it鈥檚 like a game of Charades trying to figure out who鈥檚 going to get it.

Aaron Sanchez! Daniel Norris! Marco Estrada! Sanchez! The tears of Blue Jays fans!

Just kidding, we don鈥檛 want every game to be rained out.

Are the Blue Jays going to make the playoffs this year? I doubt it, but if they do my tears will turn into those of happiness as opposed to pure, unadulterated聽