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Who are the top Toronto Blue Jays of all time? Here is our top 10 countdown:
10. Vernon Wells: with the most at-bats in franchise history, Wells was an all-around talent in his 12 seasons as a Blue Jay with three All-Star selections, three Gold Gloves, and a Silver Slugger.
9. Pat Hentgen: with 107 wins across a decade in Toronto, Hentgen was a 3x All-Star and the 1996 AL Cy Young winner while also winning 19 games during the team’s 1993 World Series season.
8. George Bell: the 1987 AL MVP with 47 home runs and 134 runs batted in, Bell was a 2x All-Star and 3x Silver Slugger in nine seasons with the Blue Jays; overall, he posted six seasons of 20+ home runs and three seasons of 100+ runs batted in with Toronto.
7. Tony Fernandez: the Blue Jays’ career leader in hits (1,583), Fernandez spent a decade-plus in a Blue Jays uniform across multiple stints, highlighted by four All-Star selections, four consecutive Gold Gloves, and a World Series title in 1993.
6. Joe Carter: immortalized for his walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series, Carter played seven seasons overall in Toronto with five All-Star selections, a pair of Silver Sluggers, and three top-10 MVP finishes.
5. Jose Bautista: after bouncing around with a number of teams, Bautista joined Toronto at the age of 27 and went on to earn six consecutive All-Star selections; during that time, he also led the league in home runs in back-to-back seasons, won three Silver Sluggers, and finished top-10 for AL MVP 4x.
4. Roberto Alomar: coming from a family of baseball players (father Sandy and brother Sandy Jr. were also major leaguers), Alomar was a key cog on the back-to-back World Series Blue Jays teams of the early 1990s; in five seasons with the team, he batted .307, was an All-Star and Gold Glover every year, and was top-10 for AL MVP in three straight seasons.
3. Carlos Delgado: the franchise career leader in a number of offensive categories (including home runs and runs batted in), Delgado played his first dozen MLB seasons with the Blue Jays and was a 2x All-Star and 3x Silver Slugger who posted eight straight seasons of 30+ home runs and 100+ runs batted in.
2. Roy Halladay: across a dozen seasons in Toronto, Halladay was a 6x All-Star who won 148 games and placed top-five for AL Cy Young 5x, highlighted by a 2003 Cy Young season in which he went 22-7.
1. Dave Stieb: in addition to leading MLB in wins during the 1980s, Stieb is Toronto’s all-time leader in most pitching categories; in 15 seasons in Toronto, he was a 7x All-Star selection and finished top-10 for AL Cy Young 4x while winning 175 games and an ERA title in 1985.
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Note: All statistics as of time of publication.
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