TORONTO -- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. isn’t feeling 100%. Neither is George Springer, nor Marcus Semien.

But there’s nothing to fear: This is the reality of playing a long season with few days of rest. In the dog days of summer baseball, no one is in tip-top condition.

“Whoever says they’re feeling 100% after all [these] games is definitely lying,” Guerrero said via translator Hector Lebron. “But I’m feeling good. Again, I’m not 100%, but it’s just part of the entire season, the wear and tear.”

That wear and tear might be amplified for the Blue Jays right now, as Sunday caps a stretch of 16 games in 14 days (oddly enough, they’ll have three off-days in an 11-day stretch after that). And to Guerrero’s point about the “entire” season, this is the first time players are adapting from a 60-game campaign back to 162 games.

So how do players handle that kind of extensive workload? And does it require a different type of preparation in August than, say, April?

“I think [for] a lot of guys, weightlifting may tone down a little bit,” Semien said. “You want to make sure -- at least, I want to make sure I’m doing something just to stay strong. You want to be able to use all your energy out here during the game and not in the weight room, but stay strong at the same time.”

Semien said he’ll lift similar weight now as he did early in the season, just for fewer reps. That’s not necessarily how everyone likes to operate, though. Semien credited Scott Weberg, Toronto’s head strength and conditioning coach, with “understanding everybody’s body, how they feel and what they need for the game.”

For Springer, an altered sleep schedule is part of the process.

“You can try to fight it, but this is the point in the year where you find yourself staying up later, sleeping longer,” he said. “It takes you a little bit longer to wake up. It takes you a little bit longer to get loose.”

The good news, Springer says, is that the season is just as long for everybody else.

“You don’t really make excuses; you just go play,” he added. “You have to stay on top of sleep, on top of nutrition and make sure that you rest your body well when you can.”

Down on the farm

• Toronto’s No. 1 prospect, Nate Pearson, was scheduled to pitch in a Rookie-Level Florida Complex League game on Saturday. The game was rained out, so instead Pearson threw a one-inning simulated game. He threw 18 pitches and sat at 96-99 mph, according to the team.

Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo was asked on Friday how he’d envision Pearson fitting at the MLB level, should the young righty be able to return from his sports hernia this season: “I’m hoping he comes and throws either the sixth or seventh inning, and he throws 98, 99 [mph]. That would be great. So we’ll see.”

• Blue Jays fans might not know much about right-hander Sem Robberse (Toronto’s No. 21 prospect), who the team signed as an international free agent from the Netherlands in 2019, but Robberse is starting to make some headway with Low-A Dunedin. On the season, he’s 5-4 with a 3.90 ERA, but he’s 3-0 with a 1.06 ERA in his past three outings.