High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise`s fifth season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing seventh in the American League East with a record of 37 wins and 69 losses. The season was suspended for 50 days due to the 1981 players` strike, and the league chose as its playoff teams the division winners from the first and second halves of the season, respectively.