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Addison Barger played in 69 games for the Blue Jays last year. It wasn’t totally successful, hitting .197/.250/.351 with 7 home runs. Before the season, he was number three on our top prospect list. Tom wrote: Barger is listed at 6’0” and 210lbs, and looks as physical as that suggests. He’s added over 50lbs since […]
From Bluebird Banter | 3 days ago | 0 reads
It is Pat Hentgen’s 57th birthday today. Pat will always be one of my favourite Blue Jays. He was the Cy Young winner (the first Jay to win the award) in 1996, going 20-10 with a 3.22 ERA and pitching an outstanding 265.2 innings. He won the prize on this day in 1996, a terrific […]
From Bluebird Banter | 4 days ago | 2 reads
It was only yesterday that Buster Posey indicated Tony Vitello’s new coaching staff was “still very much a work in progress,” and yet here we are about 24 hours later and one of the key roles has been seemingly cemented. The Athletic’s Blue Jays beat writer Mitch Bannon has reported Toronto’s assistant hitting coach Hunter […]
From McCovey Chronicles | 5 days ago | 1 read
There isn’t all that much for Jays’ news, which isn’t a surprise. John Schneider came in second for the Manager of the Year award. A lot of us figured he would win, because he took the Jays from last to first in the AL East. Of course, he was the manager when they finished last […]
From Bluebird Banter | 5 days ago | 0 reads
If you’re a Toronto sports fan, you’ve had a busy fall. You watched the Blue Jays stumble down the stretch in September, only to find their footing just in time to win the AL East on the regular season’s final day. Then you watched them handle the Yankees in the ALDS before coming back to beat the Mariners in a thrilling Game 7 classic in the ALCS. That led to one of the greatest World Series ever played, with the underdog Jays giving the fat cat Dodgers all they could handle before losing a h...
From In the Pressbox | 5 days ago | 1 read
Homer Bush turns 53 today. Bush came to us from the Yankees, along with David Wells and Graeme Lloyd, for Roger Clemens. Clemens wanted out of Toronto after winning two Cy Youngs in a row for a poor Blue Jays team (we finished 5th in 1997, then moved up to third in 1998 (we finished […]
From Bluebird Banter | 5 days ago | 1 read
Coming into 2025, Bo Bichette had spent seven seasons with the Blue Jays (one of them was a Covid-shortened season). All of them were good, until 2024. He had received MVP votes in 2021, 22 and 23. He led the league in hits. Then came 2024. He went from a 4.8 bWAR in 2023 to […]
From Bluebird Banter | 6 days ago | 2 reads
You may vaguely remember that, a few years ago, there were stray rumors about the possibility the Cubs could try to trade for Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette, rather than signing one of the big shortstops available in free agency at the time. The Cubs, of course, went on to sign Dansby Swanson. A year later, there were stray rumors about whether the Cubs might try again to trade for Bichette, this time to play third base. There hasn’t been much there since, in part because Bichette had su...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 6 days ago | 2 reads
Welcome to the second edition of Tuesday Top Ten, an offseason series which attempts to rank specific moments, players, games, or other nostalgic occurrences from throughout Mets history. The previous ranking looked at the Mets’ best World Series performers as the Blue Jays and Dodgers battled for a championship. With the offseason officially underway, this […]
From Amazin' Avenue | 6 days ago | 1 read
Coming off an excellent 2024 season, and six seasons into his career, with free agency a possibility after the 2025 season, we were all wondering what 2025 would bring. We knew he was going to get a big payday at some point this year. Either from the Blue Jays or from someone else after the […]
From Bluebird Banter | 7 days ago | 0 reads
Buddy Kennedy was this year’s Taylor Trammell, as he played for both 2025 World Series teams, the Dodgers and Blue Jays. Just like last year, when Trammell started the year in the Mariners system and then played for the Dodgers and Yankees. Kennedy in 2025 started the season with the Phillies, then found his way […]
From True Blue LA | 9 days ago | 1 read
It is hard to believe that it has been eight years (yesterday, I thought I had scheduled this for yesterday) since Roy Halladay died in that plane crash. Few deaths have affected me as much. Talking about another friend who died a few years ago, a friend said, ‘Time flies when you are dead.’ It […]
From Bluebird Banter | 9 days ago | 1 read
It’s the first weekend of the offseason, now officially a week past the end of the World Series. The world moves fast, and just as the champagne was drying and we were all catching our collective breath after Game 7 between the Dodgers and Blue Jays, the offseason began in earnest. Thirteen players were tendered […]
From Pinstripe Alley | 9 days ago | 1 read
There were bits of Jays’ news yesterday that I missed. Not that it was news, but the Jays game Bo Bichette a Qualifying Offer. $22.025, which sounds like a lot of money. Bo will be looking for a contract for around ten years. That’s a longer contract than I’d want to give him, but if […]
From Bluebird Banter | 10 days ago | 0 reads
If you were a baseball fan channel-surfing during the past month, there was a decent chance you’d tune into Canadian baseball programming of some kind. Without burying the lede, the Toronto Blue Jays played in their first World Series since they were back-to-back champs in 1992-1993. Alas, Toronto could not quite get Louie Varland his […]
From Twinkie Town | 10 days ago | 1 read
Everybody’s favourite baseball analyst, Buck Martinez, turns 77 today. Buck had a 17-season career as a catcher in the major leagues. 6 of those seasons were with the Blue Jays. He worked as the right-handed half of a very successful platoon pairing with Ernie Whitt. Buck was a good glove/bad bat, serving as a backup […]
From Bluebird Banter | 10 days ago | 0 reads
Qualifying offers were tendered to thirteen MLB players today, per multiple reports. The thirteen are: Bo Bichette, SS, Toronto Blue Jays Dylan Cease, SP, San Diego Padres Edwin Diaz, RP, New York Mets Zac Gallen, SP, Arizona Diamondbacks Trent Grisham, OF, New York Yankees Shota Imanaga, SP, Chicago Cubs Michael King, SP, San Diego Padres […]
From Lone Star Ball | 11 days ago | 2 reads
Jon Heyman, in the New York Post, tells us that Don Mattingly is leaving the Blue Jays. The story says that he is not retiring, but ‘looking for new opportunities’. Mattingly isn’t loved around here, getting, likely, too much blame for their terrible 2024 season (and no credit for the excellent 2025 season). I was […]
From Bluebird Banter | 11 days ago | 2 reads
Between the Edmonton Oilers’ inconsistent play as of late and the Blue Jays’ Game 7 heartbreak, it’s been a tough stretch if you’re a fan of both teams. For Oilers fans, though, one bright spot has been the red-hot play of Jack Roslovic over the last seven games. Heading into the Oct. 25 matchup against…
From In the Pressbox | 11 days ago | 0 reads
Former Blue Jays center fielder Lloyd, ‘The Shaker,’ Moseby, turns 66 today. Lloyd was our first-round pick in the 1978 draft, number 2 overall. The Braves picked third baseman Bob Horner as the number 1 pick. The Mets selected Hubie Brooks with the next pick (Expos fans will remember him from the Gary Carter trade). […]
From Bluebird Banter | 12 days ago | 1 read
There is no better time to be a Dodgers fan than right now. The Dodgers as a team have established themselves as not only the first repeat champions in 25 years, but as a bona fide dynasty. With all the celebration ensuing since Saturday’s Game 7 victory over the Blue Jays, reality will settle in […]
From True Blue LA | 12 days ago | 1 read
Shane Bieber has decided to take his $16 million player option and stay with the Blue Jays. I’m shocked. I was sure he would opt out and get more money, even if he went with a short-term contract. Apparently, he liked his Jays teammates and wants to stay with them, at least for another year, […]
From Bluebird Banter | 12 days ago | 0 reads
In his recap/warning to Blue Jays fans following their quasi-singularly traumatic World Series Game 7 experience, Defector’s Barry Petchesky, referencing the Yankees loss against the Diamondbacks in 2001, put it thusly: So let’s have a little heart-to-heart chat, you, the grieving and traumatized Jays fan, me, a fan who was on the wrong side of what […]
From Over the Monster | 12 days ago | 1 read
Amid the joy of the Dodgers’ second straight World Series win and subsequent championship parade and celebration on Monday was the absence of pitcher Alex Vesia, one of the team’s best relief pitchers for the last five seasons. Vesia pitched in seven of the Dodgers’ 10 playoff games through the National League Championship Series, but […]
From True Blue LA | 13 days ago | 0 reads
Brett de Geus certainly gets around. Since being drafted in 2017, Brett de Geus has spent time with nine different organizations, including two stints with the Miami Marlins. He started the year with the Blue Jays (who had claimed him off waivers in September), but they sold him to the Pirates, with whom he opened […]
From The Good Phight | 13 days ago | 1 read