Roster moves R Us.
Well, we know why Shane Bieber picked up his player option. This morning, the Jays moved him to the 60-day IL. There’s no indication of a specific setback, and this morning Ben Nicholson-Smith reported that he’s been throwing off a mound in his round-up of Jays injury timelines. So it may be more that they’re […]
The last instalment in the Top 40 series on this off-day is my list of prospects I was somewhat higher on and would have either had on or in the mix for the back of my list alone. As Tom noted on his list, these are deep(er) sleepers, generally low probability, but usually they’re be […]
Remember a month ago when we were a little worried about how they were going to handle the rotation with so many pitchers around? How young we were. The offence got on the board right away this afternoon. Ernie Clement lead off with a line double to left, and Daulton Varsho cashed him in with […]
Game three of three with the Twins. Yesterday, I mentioned driving to Minneapolis , that we were slowed at the border. Because of sitting at the border for two hours and kind of being mentally tired after the grillign, we didn’t get as far afterwards as we hoped. We ended up stopping at Minot, North […]
Well, yesterday’s good vibes did not long endure. Something is up with Eric Lauer. He was sitting 90 early and about 87 by the fourth, and struggling to locate in a way that he hasn’t really since becoming a Blue Jay. His five walks were his worst since he was a rookie back in 2018. […]
Game two of three with the Twins. I’ve been to games in Minnesota, I really liked the town. The ‘big mall’ on the other hand was ugly. And I found out that, if you are in Fargo, doing the accent they use in the movie Fargo doesn’t go over big. But the downtown area is […]
Been a while since we had a fun one, but the vibes may have turned. Patrick Corbin does not look like the answer to their rotation problems, but just about everyone else did their job. The offence was undaunted by a four run hole, racking up nine extra base hits (14 total) against just four […]
Game one of three with the Twins in Toronto. It is a City Connects game, so we’ll get to see the CC jerseys (like it or not). I’m still in Japan. If all goes as planned, we should be in Kobe. I’m hoping to get a dinner of Kobe beef at some point this trip, […]
This will be the last post in this brief series and with all the players left having less than 25 plate appearances I have decided to look at the Jays team underlying data to see how that compares to last years version. 2025 Blue Jays Last season the Jays as a team hit 265/333/427 with […]
Very little going on today, except a couple of minor MiLB notes: Trey Yesavage went 2.2 innings for Dunedin this afternoon. The surface results, 4 earned on 4 hits and a walk, aren’t great, but all four hits were singles. More importantly, he got 10 whiffs on 20 total swings and sat 94-96 all the […]
Today, I have a list of guys who I personally find interesting as deep sleepers in the Jays system. These are all distant or very flawed players, but I think they have something that might lead them to have a role at some point in the future. Michael Mesa received the second highest bonus of […]
Dodgers 3 at Blue Jays 4 158 days later, the Jays got the job done. With Shohei Ohtani starting the last game of the series, the Jays took a 4-3 lead to the 9th and finished out the job. Granted, the stakes were slightly smaller this time, but snapping a six game losing streak is […]
Time for Part 2 of this brief series on early season data points, I was hoping there might be more positives to take away from yesterdays game but alas the beat or baseball season goes on. Today I will be taking a look at a group of lefty hitters where half of them are off […]
One more game against the Dodgers and then they can get lost. And it is an afternoon game. “Work from Dome”, it says. If you are interested at all, I’ll be in Takamatsu, Japan today. I know nothing about it, but the pictures are pretty. But, as I write this I’m still getting ready to […]
We wrapped up our 2026 top 40 last week, but before we go we wanted to briefly note a few more guys who we find to be of some interest. Today, it’s the last cuts from the main list, and later Matt and I will each list a few guys we personally find interesting as […]
But hey, at least nobody seems to have gotten hurt. Kevin Gausman had a strong first two innings. He walked Shohei Ohtani to start the game, but then retired the next six Dodgers. They go to him in the third, though. Hyeseong Kim lead offf with a line double to centre, then Alex Freeland laid […]
Game two with the Godless Dodgers. And the second loonie dog game of the season. I had one loonie dog when I was there a few year ago and I was really sick after. I haven’t had a hot dog since and I likely won’t every again (well, at least not until my kids put […]
It is a little early to be looking at underlying data for positives to take away but after the way these 1o games have gone I needed to look for my own sanity and figured I would put the positives out into the world to hopefully will the Jays bats into scoring some runs. Below […]
Dodgers 14 at Blue Jays 2 The last two games I recapped were one run, extra inning losses. Tonight was…not that. The Dodgers picked up right where they left off last fall when they were last here clubbing long balls, and it’s generally not going to be a good night when the other team has […]
Stupid Dodgers are in town to play the Jays. Stupid Dodgers. We 1/16th of the way through the season, after this. I’m in Kitakyushu, Japan, one of those places I’m really interested in seeing, when this game happens. And roughly halfway through the holiday. I bought the new OOTP Baseball the other day. The early […]
Blue Jays starting catcher will undergo surgery on his left thumb tomorrow, per John Schneider. Kirk’s thumb was broken and dislocated by a foul tip over the weekend. We had hope that it would be a relatively simple recovery, but the need for surgery would aeem to suggesr a more complex and severe injury and […]
Not exactly the best week to face the Dodgers, as the Jays push through the weakest part of their schedule in 2026 going 4-5, topping it off being swept by the White Sox. The Jays have really struggled with their bullpen, with almost half their games going into extra innings, which is not something you […]
It was an eventful long weekend for Jays news. The big one was that Alejandro Kirk fractured and dislocated his thumb on an Austin Hays foul tip late in Friday’s game. His actual prognosis won’t be known until he meets with specialists on Monday. In the best case scenario, though, it’ll be several weeks before […]
This series has been pretty grim. The pitching hasn’t been awful, one significant meltdown notwithstanding, but the offence largely hasn’t shown up against a pretty bad pitching staff, and now the Jays find themselves on a 1-5 skid and below .500 for the season. In case the results weren’t enough, Addison Barger had to leave […]
The last of our three-game series with the White Sox. I am in Nagasaki, Japan today. This is going be one of those heavy days that we sometimes get on holidays. The US dropped an A-bomb on the city near the end of the Second World War. We have been to a few of these […]