Photo Credit: Kim-Klement-USA TODAY Sports The Blue Jays won a game that was, at one point, a laugher, but that had turned tense by the end. Not that it matters. As is usually going to be the case this early in camp, the most interesting things happening today took place off the field, rather than…
Read More →Photo Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Bus trip to Bradenton! Who wouldn’t be up for a thing like that! Why, I’ll tell you who! Every position player of consequence for the Toronto Blue Jays, that’s who! (No offence, Ryan Goins and Michael Saunders).
Read More →Photo Credit: Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Look. Obviously at some point I’m going to write a recap of a Grapefruit League game and suggest that something significant actually happened. But a damn tie in the minor league-heavy second game of the spring? This is proooooobably not where that’s going to happen. Patterns take a while…
Read More →Photo Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports It’s Game Two of Grapefruit League action, and the “home” opener for the Blue Jays in Dunedin, so what useless things can we look forward to getting prematurely excited or overly negative about today? Actually there are quite a few of them!
Read More →Photo Credit: Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Jays and the Phillies kicked off their Grapefruit League seasons here on Tuesday afternoon, and I guess I should write something about it, even though I haven’t exactly been paying rapt attention. Frankly, I’ve been thinking about the best way to recap a game so it hits the…
Read More →Photo Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Play ball! Actual baseball! Sort of! But whatever you want to call this first action of the Grapefruit League season, on this total garbage winter day here in Toronto, I call firing up the ol’ MLB.tv app and shaking off my rusty memory of which number corresponds to which…
Read More →Photo Credit: David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports In camp right now with the Blue Jays are right-handed non-roster invitees David Aardsma, Brad Penny, and Roberto Hernandez (who rings two bells with his names, having once also been known as Fausto Carmona). On the actual 40-man they’ve also got Gavin Floyd (for some reason), rule five pick-up…
Read More →Choosing his words carefully as he wades into the contract muck — screengrab via TSN In a terrific and wide-ranging 19 minute interview (which for some reason isn’t embeddable), Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro spoke with TSN’s Steve Phillips in a piece aired over the weekend, making perhaps his clearest remarks yet on the departure of…
Read More →I’ll give Jon Morosi one thing: he knows how to get people talking. Or, at the very least, get people clicking. Or to get himself on the radio in some of the biggest markets in this country, if not the US as well. He especially knows how to get people talking about big, pipe-dreamy shifts in…
Read More →Photo Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports “This is the big-boy league! This isn’t facing the Phillies at Coors Field!” Those words were awesomely, encouragingly yelled at Troy Tulowitzki last season by Josh Donaldson — an initiation into the world of the Blue Jays, which even still not yet through his first year, Donaldson was a hugely prominent…
Read More →Holy. If you’re a follower of @BlueJays on Twitter, you’ve been subjected to some serious content ever since the club arrived officially in Dunedin — some of it their own, some of it created by others and not credited (the same photo mentioned by John Lott here shows up uncredited in the Jays’ stream, too *COUGH*)….
Read More →Photo Credit: Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports The Blue Jays will score a load of runs in 2016 no matter which player ends up taking regular turns in the lead-off spot, so in a way it’s a little bit pointless to get too worked up about who that hitter would be. And yet when John Gibbons says, as…
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