The Toronto Blue Jays are 74-54 (a .578 winning percentage) and lead the American League East with 34 games to play. So it’s worth wondering for fans and for MLB betting in Canada whether 2025 could the first season since 2015 where Canada’s lone MLB club finishes atop the five-team division.
To get a sense of where Toronto’s division title drought ranks, BetCanada.com added up the days between the end of each team’s last division title season and the end of this year’s regular season (Sept. 28).
Longest MLB Division Title Droughts
- Pittsburgh Pirates: 12,047 days (from Oct. 4, 1992, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Colorado Rockies: 11,864 days (From April 5, 1993, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Miami Marlins: 11,864 days (From April 5, 1993, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Seattle Mariners 8,757 days (From Oct. 7, 2001, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- San Diego Padres: 6,937 days (From Oct. 1, 2006, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Arizona Diamondbacks: 5,114 days (From Sept. 28, 2011, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Cincinnati Reds: 4,743 days (From Oct. 3, 2012, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Detroit Tigers: 4,018 days (From Sept. 28, 2014, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- L.A. Angels: 4,018 days (From Sept. 28, 2014, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Toronto Blue Jays: 3,647 days (From Oct. 4, 2015, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Kansas City Royals: 3,647 days (From Oct. 4, 2015, to Sept. 28, 2025)
- Texas Rangers: 3,283 days (From Oct. 2, 2016, to Sept. 28, 2025)
This analysis is from BetCanada.com as part of our Canada sports betting coverage.
The Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins both entered MLB in 1993 and neither franchise has ever won a division title (the Marlins in the National League East and the Rockies in the NL West). They are the only two active franchises that have never claimed a division crown.
Could 2025 Be The Year of the Blue Jay?
Based on the projections from FanGraphs.com, it seems like 2025 is the Jays’ year. The analytics site gives Toronto 74.1% odds of winning the AL East and 67.6% odds of clinching a bye in the postseason as one of the top two seeds among six AL playoff teams.
Those division title chances would translate to about -286 odds at Canada sportsbook apps.
As of Aug. 20, FanGraphs projects 92 wins for the Jays, which would put them well ahead of the New York Yankees (89.6 projected wins) in the AL East race. That would also be the club’s most wins in a season since Toronto went 92-70 in 2022.
The team at NorthStar Bets currently has Toronto at -286 to win the AL East, ranking well ahead of The Bronx Bombers at +285 and the Boston Red Sox at +1200. The operator also gives the Jays the second-best AL pennant odds, at +370 (behind the Detroit Tigers at +320).
Manager John Schneider’s bunch has +1114 odds to win the World Series at Pinnacle Canada Sportsbook, ranking sixth on that board.
Which MLB Teams Have Longer Droughts?
One team has waited since before the Marlins and Rockies started playing to win a division title. The Pittsburgh Pirates’ last crown came before the MLB expanded to 28 teams in 1993.
Pittsburgh’s most recent division title was in 1992 when they were in the NL East, giving them a 12,047-day gap from the end of that league year to the final day of the 2025 MLB season.
Overall, Toronto’s 10-year division title gap ties the Kansas City Royals for 10th longest in the bigs. The Tigers and Los Angeles Angels both won their divisions in 2014, giving them 4,018-day gaps between those two points.
Other MLB teams with sizeable division title gaps include the Seattle Mariners, who last won the AL West in 2001 (or 8,757 days), while the San Diego Padres (2006), Arizona Diamondbacks (2011) and Cincinnati Reds (2012) were the others to make the MLB’s unenviable list in 2025.
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