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Christopher Boan is a writer at OntarioBets.com. He's covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
Ranking Most To Least Cohesive Teams In The AL East
After the Toronto Blue Jays bottomed out and missed the MLB postseason in 2024, it’ll be interesting for fans and for Ontario sports betting to see if they can return to the sport’s biggest stage in 2025. Star infielder Vlad Guerrero Jr. is on the precipice of free agency and a host of longstanding team members back in the fold this spring, increasing the urgency.
OntarioBets.com wanted to see which teams have spent the most time together and been the most cohesive unit in the American League East division. We used FanGraphs.com’s projected Opening Day 26-man roster.
Most Cohesive Teams in AL East, 2025
| Rank | Team | Combined Seasons With Team |
| 1 | Tampa Bay Rays | 55.5 years |
| T2 | Baltimore Orioles | 54 years |
| T2 | New York Yankees | 54 years |
| 4 | Boston Red Sox | 53 years |
| 5 | Toronto Blue Jays | 51 years |
Entering the league year, oddsmakers from NorthStar Bets Ontario Sportsbook aren’t riding high on Toronto’s chances. The team has a preseason win total over/under of 79.5 and +270 odds that Toronto makes it back to the postseason after missing out last year.
For this research, we found the combined number of seasons (consecutively) that each player has played with their respective teams. For any seasons split between two or more teams, it counted as 0.5. For example: Bo Bichette has spent six seasons with the Blue Jays, so that is six of the 51 seasons for their total.
Jays 2025 Odds And Where They Rank For Cohesion
Some of Toronto’s past playoff failures plus misgivings for Ontario sportsbook apps bettors are reflected here. The Jays have had a relative lack of continuity in the lineup, as they have the lowest number of combined seasons together in the five-team AL East, at 51 years.
That total puts the Jays behind the Tampa Bay Rays, who enter the MLB season as the leaders in continuity in the AL East at 55.5 years. The Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees have 54 apiece and the Boston Red Sox rank ahead of Toronto in fourth place, with 53 years of experience together.
Some might view the lack of years as a bit of silver lining for Canada’s lone MLB club and for Toronto Blue Jays playoff odds. However, Toronto’s last playoff series win came in 2016 when the Jays made the ALCS before falling to Cleveland in five games. Toronto has lingering postseason scar tissue from losing in the AL Wild Card Round three times in four seasons between 2020 and 2023.
Nonetheless, Vlad Guerrero Jr. and the new-look Jays will take to the fields of The Show with an eye toward proving the experts wrong, making the postseason after a year off. As for the odds of making a run past the Wild Card Round for the first time in nine years north of the border? Caesars Ontario Sportsbook gives Toronto +2500 odds to win the pennant and a +6000 line to earn the franchise’s first World Series title since 1993.
The gap between first and last on our list is fairly small so the difference in combined experience between the Yankees, who are defending AL champions, and the Jays is not vast. New York won the AL pennant last season after entering the season with +400 odds to do so at BetMGM, according to sportsoddshistory.com data.
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