Toronto Blue Jays may be better than you think.

The Blue Jays start a three game series tonight in Yankee Stadium.  The Blue Jays and Yankees have played only 6 of 19 games so far.  Blue Jays lead 4-2, outscoring the Yankees 26-16.  Yanks are in first, Blue Jays second in the Eastern division of the American Conference.  Blue Jays currently would have the second wild card spot if the season ended now.

Rk	Tm	W	L	W-L%	GB	GBsum	Strk	R	RA	Rdiff	SOS	SRS	pythWL	Luck	vEast	vCent	vWest	Inter	Home	Road	ExInn	1Run	vRHP	vLHP	≥.500	<.500	last10	last20	last30
1	NYY	61	46	.570	---		W 1	4.9	4.3	0.7	0.2	0.8	60-47	1	26-18	13-6	16-14	6-8	32-18	29-28	2-5	17-15	40-34	21-12	27-25	34-21	6-4	14-6	20-10
2	TOR	58	52	.527	4.5	4.5	W 5	5.3	4.2	1.1	0.1	1.2	66-44	-8	23-21	15-13	11-12	9-6	36-21	22-31	4-5	11-23	43-41	15-11	31-22	27-30	8-2	13-7	16-14
3	BAL	55	52	.514	6.0	7.5	W 1	4.4	3.9	0.5	0.2	0.7	59-48	-4	26-24	12-10	9-11	8-7	32-20	23-32	3-2	14-17	40-42	15-10	16-31	39-21	7-3	11-9	14-16
4	TBR	54	55	.495	8.0	13.5	L 1	3.7	3.8	-0.1	0.3	0.2	53-56	1	24-26	10-13	13-11	7-5	27-30	27-25	2-8	16-19	34-43	20-12	30-32	24-23	5-5	10-10	12-18
5	BOS	48	61	.440	14.0	37.5	L 1	4.1	4.8	-0.7	0.4	-0.3	47-62	1	20-30	7-10	13-17	8-4	27-28	21-33	4-3	15-14	37-43	11-18	26-45	22-16	4-6	6-14	12-18
	Avg	55	53	.509				4.5	4.2				57-51		23-23	11-10	12-13	7-6	30-23	24-29	3-4	14-17	38-40	16-12	26-31	29-22	6-4	10-9	14-15

In straight difference of runs scored and allowed per game, Blue Jays lead Yanks 1.1 to 0.7.

pythWL  luck:
Yankees 60-47  1
Blue Jays 66-44  -8

SRS (Simple Rating System: Rdiff + SOS (Strength of Schedule)):
Yankees 0.8
Blue Jays 1.1

This suggests that the Blue Jays are better than their record.

Most of this was established before the two big player acquisitions:

Troy Tulowitzki  shortstop

• July 28, 2015: Traded by the Colorado Rockies with LaTroy Hawkins to the Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Hoffman (minors), Jesus Tinoco (minors), Miguel Castro and Jose Reyes.

David Price  starting pitcher

• July 30, 2015: Traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Toronto Blue Jays for Jairo Labourt (minors), Matt Boyd and Daniel Norris.