After winning yesterday here is the Blue Jays record so far in spring training. They've just won 8 in a row and have 7 games left.
- 20-4 - .833 - TOR - 2012
Here are the 4 best records in spring since 2003. These are the only records above a .700 winning percentage. Also, the least amount of games lost by a team in spring in those years is 8.
- 26-9 - .765 - LAA - 2009
- 20-8 - .714 - TB - 2010
- 24-10 - .706 - NYY - 2009
- 19-8 - .704 - KC - 2003
Also this article says that spring can mean something, at least when you look at all the records combined. It doesn't mean the Blue Jays will have a great year but according to this article if they have the best record in spring they probably have a good chance of at least having a good season and finishing over a .500 winning percentage.
Spring training records really matter
Well, a 10-year look (it didn’t take me 10 years to do it, I just looked at numbers over a 10-year period!) at MLB’s spring training records reveals some interesting trends. You might have heard that “the numbers never lie;” the numbers I discovered should give baseball fans a little more reason to pay attention to spring training standings.
Here are some of the tidbits that I unearthed while looking at spring training records over the past 10 years:
• Out of the past 20 World Series participants since 2002, only six had a spring training record worse than one game under .500.
• Seven of the 10 teams that had the worst overall spring training record went on to finish last or next-to-last in their division that season.
• Only two of the 11 teams (two teams tied one year) with the best overall spring training record had a losing record that season.