Silver lining in 9 game losing streak?

It's hard to imagine there being anything positive to take away from the worst road trip in the entire Blue Jays franchise history. The Blue Birds lost all 9 of their games, dropping from a sensational 27-14 record to 27-23. However, could there be a silver lining to take from that dastardly trip?

Unequivocally, the worst part of the losing skid was falling all three times to division rival Boston. However, it made the club realize that youngsters Brett Cecil and Robert Ray aren't quite ready for the big stage, so they were comfortable with sending the young starts back to AAA and replace them with Casey Janssen and Ricky Romero.

The 2nd part of the excursion was the awful three game sweep at the hands of the Atlanta Braves. Silver lining in that? It's 3 games that we lost to a club that's not in our league. Not a complete disaster. And that leads us to the 3rd series sweep in Baltimore. The last loss was the hardest to stomach, with the team blowing a 5 run 8th inning lead, and then a 2 run 11th inning edge, but it's not like the Orioles will be contending in the American League East, so it's not the worst team to lose to.

We should count our lucky starts the brutal stretch of losses didn't occur to the likes of Boston, New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays. There would have been no words to describe how demoralizing that would have been. It's tough to take any positives from losing so many games in a row, but maybe, just maybe, Toronto got their terrible losing streak out of the way, and can now focus on getting their season back on track against the teams that they'll be in a battle with to make the playoffs.