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Sunday Jays Notes: Cease To Start All-Star Game
Happy Sunday. Dylan Cease will be the starter for the AL in the All-Star game, John Schneider has decided. The nice part about being All-Star manager is that you can give your own players a little treat (not that Cease doesn’t deserve the starter role). Dave Stieb and Roy Halladay are the other Blue Jays […]
Draft Day 2 Open Thread
As with yesterday, use this open thread to discuss the draft as it happens. We’ll also have a regular game thread closer to 4:00. The Jays have all of their picks today, starting with #164 overall in the fifth round and then selecting 29th in each round thereafter.
Jays Lose Pitching Non-Duel to Padres 8-7
Seventeen walks, eleven issued by the Jays, against just seven strikeouts. Really, on both sides, some of the worst pitching you’ll see in a major league game. Five Jays pitchers played, and all but Spencer Miles gave up a run. On the positive side, the offence actually showed up. They managed seven runs on eight […]
Blue Jays Draft Recap: Day 1
Today was the first day of the 2026 MLB amateur draft. The Jays made three picks, after losing their second rounder as a penalty for signing Dylan Cease, and had their first pick moved back 10 spots (effectively into the top of the second round) for exceeding the second luxury tax threshold last season. Pick […]
Blue Jays @ Padres Game Thread
We are going out for drinks with friends as the ten days of Stampede partying is running out, so I’m going to miss out on tonight’s game. But going to find a spot to watch England’s World Cup game, wearing my jersey. Just as I was leaving there was this….amazing that someone who can throw […]
Draft Day 1 Open Thread
Today marks the first of two days of the 2026 MLB amateur draft. You can find part 1 of our draft preview (schedule and rules, etc.) here, and part 2 (some first round names to watch) here. The Jays pick at #39 overall and again at #103 and #131. The first selection will probably occur […]
Okamoto Homers, Jays Win
Blue Jay 5 Padres 3 A three-game win streak. A few days ago that would have seemed impossible. We owe this one to Kazuma Okamoto, who hit a three-run home run in the fifth. In that fifth inning, Myles Straw started it with a bunt single (very nicely done Straw). Jonatan Clase flied out. Then […]
Jays @ Padres Game Thread
The Jays traded away Tommy Nance (and $250,000 in international signing bonus money) to the Twins for Catcher/Infielder Ryan Sprock (he’s assigned to Vancouver). FanGraphs had him at #31 on their Top Prospect list. They must see something in Sprock. He has a .297/.427/.428 in 67 games at A ball. Also Braydon Fisher has activated […]
Tommy Nance Traded to Minnesota
The Blue Jays have traded right handed reliever Tommy Nance to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for A+ catcher Ryan Sprock: Nance has been with the organization for two years, after being acquired from the Padres in the middle of the 2024 season. He filled innings capably down the stretch in that lost season, and […]
Taking Wing: Jay Harry
When the Jays dumped Trevor Richards on the Twins at the 2024 deadline, the return was an infielder who’d signed a way under slot deal in the sixth round of the previous year’s draft out of the decided non-baseball hotbed of Penn State University by the name of Jay Harry. Baseball America ranked him 426th […]
Off Day Open Thread
I’m out for much of the day, so figured I’d put up an open thread. As always discuss what ever you’d like, Jays related or not. The songs of Mac Davis? Sure. Songs of Roger Miller? Fine. World Cup? Fine. Movies you want to see or have seen. Fine. Best thing you’ve walked on Netflix […]
Bluebird Banter 2026 MLB Draft Preview Part 2
Yesterday, I went over the details of the draft and the Jays’ potential strategy. Today, a quick review of the farm, the shape of the draft class, and some names. The Farm Baseball America refreshed their farm system rankings the day before yesterday, in anticipation of the draft. They currently have the Jays 18th. Fangraphs […]
Cease Allows One Hit In 8 Innings, Jays Win
Blue Jays 10 Giants 0 What an amazing start by Dylan Cease. I wasn’t all for sending him back out for the eighth inning at 104 pitches. But Clease isn’t going to make a start in several days, with the All-Star break ahead (well, he might start the All-Star game). But in the eighth Daulton […]
Blue Jays vs. Giants Game Thread
Well, let’s see if the magic of the toy dragon will work two days in a row. Please Jays score some runs. Feeling bad for Braydon Fisher and family losing his father. 65 is too young to die. Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS GIANTS Ernie Clement – 2B Heliot Ramos – LF Nathan Lukes – RF […]
Springer Back In The Lineup
George Springer is back playing today and batting fourth, which is a choice. I don’t know, it likely better than him leading off. I know that we worry too much about batting order, because that’s one of the things we can easily see, judge. Lineups: Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS GIANTS Ernie Clement – 2B Heliot […]
Bluebird Banter 2026 MLB Draft Preview Part 1
The 2026 MLB draft kicks off this Saturday, at 1:00pm ET. Because of MLB’s ironclad commitment to preventing this from becoming an event, it will occur while several teams are playing actual MLB games, although the Jays specifically will be in San Diego and don’t go until 8:40pm. The first 10 picks, which will inexplicably […]
Jays Actually Score And Win
Jays 9 Giants 3 Before the game, I asked the Jays to score and not just one run. And they did….I should have asked earlier. The Jays scored: We did go five inning there without getting a baserunner. But let’s focus on the nine runs instead. We had 13 hits. Clement (leading off) had three […]
Jays @ Giants Game Thread
I’m hoping I’ll be back in time to put up a real game thread, but in case I get delayed, use this as a thread.
Tuesday Open Thread
I’m going to be away from the computer all day, hopefully back for game time tonight. I say hopefully, but the way they are playing I’m not sure that’s the right word. So let’s have an open thread to pass the day away. Normal rules, can talk on anything Jays related or not Jays related. […]
Well, We Scored (And Still Lost)
Jays 1 Giants 10 I don’t know…. At least in the past we were able to make the easy defensive plays. But tonight, we couldn’t even do that. Andrés Giménez made an error. Kazuma Okamoto made an official, had another that should have been an error and made a lousy play on a throw into […]
Monday Bantering and Game Thread
George Springer has joined the team in San Francisco, but there is no word that he’s been added to the roster and he isn’t in the lineup tonight, which is something that we could have an explanation about. Of course, as soon as I hit publish the team will make an announcement. The lineup they […]
Scoreless In Seattle, Again
Blue Jays 0 Mariners 4 So…..for the second game in a row, we didn’t score. Today, three hits, one extra base hit (Vlad’s double), with singles from Nathan Lukes and Ernie Clement. And we had two walks. Surprisingly, only six strikeouts, but a lot of soft contact. We had one hard hit ball, Vlad’s double […]
Blue Jays @ Mariners Game Thread
Game #90. It really can’t be as bad as yesterday’s game, right? Trey Yesavage is having a good season. But then Emerson Hancock isn’t terrible either. I can’t imagine naming someone Emerson. But then I don’t have much imagination. Today’s lineups: Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS MARINERS Nathan Lukes – RF J.P. Crawford – 3B Vladimir […]
Sunday Jays Notes
It must be fun to be a manager and a pitching coach. Ok, we have Shane Bieber back and ready to go. Three starts in, he has a 9.00 ERA. 7 walks and 9 strikeouts in 13 innings. Batters are hitting .351/.422/.737 against him. His fastball velocity is at the 15th percentile and average exit […]
Mariners Crush Jays
Jays 0 Mariners 11 The trouble with signing a pitcher coming off of Tommy John Surgery is that they might not be the same pitcher they were before the surgery. Today, at least, Shane Bieber was not the pitcher he used to be. He pitched a nice first inning and go the first two outs […]
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