Blue Jays Mailbag: Why the Dickey-Syndergaard Trade Was Defensible

The Blue Jays are staying afloat as they await the return of Josh Donaldson and Troy Tulowitzki, so it won’t be all doom and gloom as we open up this week’s edition of the mailbag.

If you have a Blue Jays question you’d like me to tackle for next week, be sure to send it to stoeten@gmail.com. As always, I have not read any of Griff’s answers…

Honestly, I’d like to give the schedule-makers a break on this one, but… right???

There is only one team that plays in a country with an almost completely different holiday calendar than everyone else, and it’s hard to fathom that simple economics wouldn’t have made home Blue Jays games on Canadian holidays staples years ago. The Red Sox always manage to get a home game on Patriots’ Day, and while the league has been better in recent years in terms of making sure the Jays are always at home on Canada Day, I’m not sure why it’s been so hard for them to accommodate other holidays as well. I get that teams can’t make too many demands on the schedule, but surely they could figure this out. Assuming the Jays even want to play at home on those days.