'I'm betting my money on them': Why Joe Carter thinks the Blue Jays could win it all

Nearly 32 years after Joe Carter hit his historic home run to win the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays, the baseball legend believes the current team has what it takes to win it all. 

"They have the guys who can do it. And I'm betting my money on them right now," Carter told The Sunday Magazine host Piya Chattopadhyay. 

The Blue Jays lead the New York Yankees two games to none in the best of five American League Division Series (ALDS), with both wins coming in convincing fashion in Toronto. The Jays have a chance to advance to the American League Championship Series (ALCS) with a win in Game 3 in New York on Tuesday.

But before the season started, few — if any — had the Jays down for a run at the World Series. The team had a disappointing 2024, finishing with the worst record in the division, missing out on playoffs.

Carter played for the Blue Jays from 1991 to 1997. He helped the team win back-to-back World Series championship titles, which included an iconic walk-off home run in '93 to seal the deal.

Despite currently living in the U.S., Carter is rooting for Toronto as the playoffs unfold. But if the Jays are to conquer baseball playoffs this season, he does have a small stipulation on how he wants them to win.

Here's part of his conversation with Chattopadhyay.

What explains how well the Jays have played this year, despite all the predictions?

The thing that has turned the team around is that they have the cohesiveness and the camaraderie. What I saw last year, a lot of people ... didn't have the pitching, they weren't getting the timely hitting, they weren't doing anything. And they finished in dead last. And so it just snowballed. 

But now this year,[I was] talking to the guys like George Springer, and