The Blue Jays surprised everyone last season and it looks like it made quite the impact as their are now Toronto's number one team.
The Sun's feature asks readers to pick their favourite sports team in Toronto as part of a citywide top-5 readers poll. The Blue Jays are an obvious name in that mix.
From a Blue Jays angle, the timing makes sense. This is not some forgotten club trying to get back on the local map. Toronto just came off a 2025 season that ended with an American League pennant.
That matters in a city where attention gets split fast. The Blue Jays are the only MLB team in Canada, and when they are rolling, the entire market tends to move with them. That second sentence is an inference based on the Blue Jays' national footprint and Toronto's recent postseason attention.
The recent ceiling is part of the argument. Toronto reached the World Series in 2025 before losing a 7-game set to the Dodgers, which gave the club its deepest October run since the early 1990s.
There is older history behind it too. The Blue Jays still stand as the last Toronto club to win back-to-back championships at the top of its sport, taking the World Series in 1992 and 1993.
They also carry one of the city's most durable fan memories. Springer's 3-run shot that sent Toronto to the 2025 World Series became one of those moments that instantly sticks in the market.
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This is where the Blue Jays separate a little in a fan vote. They are not just living on nostalgia from the Joe Carter years. They have recent playoff weight, recent star power, and a club that gave the city a real pennant push only months ago.
The attendance side helps too. Toronto's franchise record book shows a 2025 home winning streak of 11 games, a sign of how loud Rogers Centre got again when the club was moving. That is an inference from the team record and the documented home run.
And unlike a casual poll novelty, this one is built around identity. The Sun framed it as a way for readers to “stand and be heard,” which makes it less about cold ranking and more about which team still owns real emotional space in the city.
That is where the Blue Jays should do well. They bring championship history, a 2025 pennant, and a fan base that tends to swell into something much bigger the minute the games start to matter. That last point is an inference from the 2025 World Series run and franchise history.
No poll result has settled anything yet. But if Toronto fans are honestly picking which teams have given them the most juice, the Blue Jays belong high on that ballot.
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