Matt Scannell signed with the Blue Jays on Friday, according to Sportsnet's Zach Worden. Scannell just completed his final college season, which he played with Wake Forest and put up a .978 OPS.

Best in baseball’ are three words no one would have dared utter when describing a Blue Jays team that ended last season dead last in the AL East.

The Blue Jays crushed the Tigers, the Mariners dinger their way to victory, a knuckleball sighting and more from Thursday's MLB action.

The last time the Blue Jays were atop MLB this late in the season was 1992, according to Sportsnet. The 1992 season was the first of consecutive World Series championships for Toronto, so this is quite the good omen.

SportsLine's model simulated Toronto Blue Jays vs. Detroit Tigers 10,000 times and revealed its MLB picks for Thursday's matchup at Comerica Park in Detroit

With that victory, the Blue Jays now have the best record in baseball at 62-42. The last time that they had the best record in the league this late in the season was in 1992, when they went on to beat the Atlanta Braves in the World Series, according to Sportsnet.

They can run from Thursday's Trade Deadline, but they cannot hide. It’s on the TV, it’s in their phones, it’s in the clubhouse air.

The Blue Jays landed Loperfido in the Yusei Kikuchi trade with the Houston Astros last July, so it would be an odd full-circle moment for the youngster to be dealt for a second year in a row, as Toronto has flipped from sellers to buyers in a year's time.