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New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe was compared to franchise legend and Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, but now the focus is on Volpe's struggles at the plate and in the field.
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It is José Berríos’ fifth season with the Blue Jays.
He’s been incredibly consistent. He’s made 32 starts in each of the last four seasons and six of the last seven. The one he missed was shortened due to covid. And he’s had ERAs in the mid-3’s each season, except for 2022.
This year?
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Plus Jose Canseco and Daulton Varsho
Brett Cecil turns 39 today.
Brett was a Blue Jays first-round pick in 2007 (38th overall), our second first-round pick. We got the selection for the loss of free agent Frank Catalanotto and would have five first-round picks (four supplemental picks). We picked Kevin Ahrens, J.P. Arencibia, Cecil, Justin Jackson, and Trystan Magnuson. Cecil was the last man standing in the majors.
He came from the University of Maryland,...
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Part 2: The Outfield
On Monday, I reviewed the one stat I’d picked for each Blue Jays infielder to tell the story of their season to date. Today, the outfield.
George Springer: 92.6mph average exit velocity. Update: 87.8mph since May 23. The Springaissance in April was driven by George selling out to hit the ball hard and to elevate. He’s still doing the latter, with a 16 degree launch angle over the last quarter, and he’s still barreling the ball up at...
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Yankees 5 Blue Jays 12
What a great game!
Two games in a row where a Yankee catcher's getting his glove in the way of a swing was a huge moment. I wonder how many times a team has been charged with catcher’s interference two days in a row?
The big inning was the seventh. The Yankees had tied the game in the top of the inning because of two Jays errors. Our defense has been so good it was strange to have two errors in one inning. But then, in the...
George Springer hit a grand slam, added a solo homer and had a career-best seven RBIs Tuesday afternoon as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting New York Yankees 12-5 on Canada Day.
The Toronto Blue Jays are coming off a victory over the Yankees. They won in game one of their series last night with a score of five to four. They have improved their record to 46-38, good enough for third place in the AL East.
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Happy Canada Day.
I’m grateful that my parents chose to immigrate here, even though I make a joke out of how they decided to move to the coldest place on earth. However, at the time, Antarctica wasn’t accepting immigrants, so they chose Edmonton, Alberta.
Many things amaze me about my parents’ choice of Edmonton. They didn’t know anyone there. They came there with $200. They got there in the winter, and my dad found a job out of town. He...
The Toronto Blue Jays are having a very strong 2025 season thanks to some great performances from underrated players like Ernie Clement and Addison Barger, and it’s setting up to be a year of buying for the Jays come the trade deadline.
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Happy Canada Day.
The Jays made a roster move before today’s game:
Jonatan Clase has been sent to Buffalo. Leo Jiménez gets the call-up because you can never have enough middle infielders.This suggests to me that Bo Bichette might be out for a few days (he’s not in the lineup today). Jiménez is playing shortstop today. He’s hitting .271/.417/.333 in 15 games for the Bisons. He missed a couple of months with an...
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Nathan Lukes turns 31 next week. He’s played a handful of games for the Jays in each of the last two seasons. This year, he’s been on the roster (except for a few days on the IL) all season.
He’s easy to cheer for. He’s put in his time in the minors and is finally getting a chance in the majors.
He’s been decent, 102 OPS+. For a fourth outfielder, I’m good with that. If he’s an everyday corner outfielder, I’d like better.
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Nine Years Ago Today
I miss games like this. Stupid Manfred Man.
The Jays and Cleveland played a 19-inning game, the second-longest game by time and tied for the most innings the Jays ever played.
I miss games like this.
I’m also pretty sure Matt set a record for the longest recap title and longest recap. Those games cause a lot of writing.
We ended up losing it 2-1. It would be Cleveland’s 14th straight win (the next day, the Jays ended their...
The Blue Jays have finally put the lengthy Vladimir Guerrero Jr. extension saga behind them and are in the midst of a resurgent season with a 45-38 record that puts them in third place in a competitive AL East, just two games back of the Yankees for the division lead.
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Yankees 4 Blue Jays 5
That was an exciting game—lots of debatable moves, lots of good defense, bad defense (mainly by the Yankees).
Max Scherzer looked excellent. He went five innings, gave up two runs on a Jazz Chisholm home run (after striking out Aaron Judge on ten pitches). He didn’t allow a walk and had seven strikeouts. There was a moment in that fifth inning where it looked like Scherzer had some discomfort of some sort (sounds like his thumb...
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No Bo tonight, ‘knee discomfort’ which could mean any number of things. I’m hoping he’s only out tonight, but we won’t know until later (tomorrow likely).
Today’s lineup. I like Clements in the leadoff spot vs a left-hander. Will Wagner DHing is a different story.
Today's Lineups Trent Grisham - CF Ernie Clement - SS Cody Bellinger - LF George Springer - RF Aaron Judge - RF Vladimir Guerrero - 1B Jazz Chisholm -...Photo by Jaiden Tripi/Getty Images
Bo Bichette is scratched from tonight’s game with “right knee discomfort”. He left the field in the middle of batting practice.
I’m hoping this won’t carry on beyond today, but that’s just a hope. We will likely hear more tonight.
Ross Atkins says the Jays will look to add players at the deadline. More pitching is high on the list, and perhaps a ‘right-handed bat’. They have money and prospects to spend.
Yimi Garcia pitched 2/3 of...
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Addison Barger was a sixth-round pick in the 2018 draft (he dropped that far because he was committed to the University of Florida). He didn’t impress with the bat until 2022, but then he hit .308/.378/.555 with 26 home runs in 124 games, mainly with the Dunedin Blue Jays.
Unfortunately, he exceeded rookie limits last season, or he’d have a shot at votes for Rookie of the Year.
25 1.3 59 218 200 30 52 18 0 9 26...Most books on baseball are written by baseball journalists for a simple reason. They have the day-to-day relationships with the teams and players, and they write, so eventually a book falls out of them. But the real challenge is that most journalists are good at their specific format; the 500-to-3000-word article but the structure of a book is very different. Some excel, like Tom Verducci, adapting their long form approach to the new format. Others, like Jeff Blair, find it difficult to...
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Tony Fernandez, the best shortstop to play for the Blue Jays, would have turned 63 today.
Tony is our franchise leader in games played (1450) and hits (1583), among other things. He also holds our single-season record for singles (161) and triples (17). He also leads position players in bWAR at 37.5 (Jose Bautista is second at 37.0).
Fernandez had four different tours of duty with the Jays. He joined the Jays in 1983 at the age of 21 and...
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Part 1: The Infield
Shortly after the quarter-point in the season, I picked one stat for each Blue Jay that I though was reflective of their season to date. Now that we’re a couple of games into the second half (chronologically if not yet customarily), I want to check in and see how things are progressing. Today, I’ll revisit the piece I wrote on the infield.
Vladimir Guerrero jr.: 40.6% swing rate. Update: 41.9% since May 23. Vlad remains more patient than he...