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Friday Open Thread
There’s no playoff game today, so let’s have an Open Thread. My day’s opened up. I was going to go for lunch with an old friend, but something came up (he realized he didn’t want to go for lunch with me) (I’m kidding, I think). It is probably good; I was ‘social’ yesterday, and I […]
Today in Blue Jays History: The Donaldson Dash
Ten Years Ago Today Josh Donaldson raced home from second base on a grounder to shortstop, clinching Game 3 of the ALDS for the Blue Jays and completing a sweep of the Rangers. With the game tied in the 10th, Donaldson led off against Matt Bush—whose name keeps coming up for all the wrong reasons—with […]
Thursday Guardians @ White Sox ALDS Game
Game four of the Guardians/White Sox series. White Sox are up two games to one. They win, they take on the Rays. Lineups: Today’s Lineups GUARDIANS WHITE SOX Steven Kwan – CF Chase Meidroth – 2B Jose Ramirez – 3B Randal Grichuk – LF Chase DeLauter – RF Miguel Vargas – 3B Jo Adell – […]
Thursday Bantering: Jays Notes
Happy Thurday. We only get one playoff game today, the Guardians and White Sox play game four. White Sox are up two games to one. It is an 8:00 Eastern start. The Rays beat out the Yankees in three games. Yay Rays. The Dodgers beat out the Braves in four games. You disappointed me Braves. […]
Wednesday Division Series Open Thread
This is the last day of the year with four baseball games. Today we have: 4:00 Eastern: Guardians @ White Sox. White Sox are up 2-0. Lineups: Today’s Lineups GUARDIANS WHITE SOX Steven Kwan – CF Sam Antonacci – DH Jose Ramirez – 3B Miguel Vargas – 3B Chase DeLauter – RF Munetaka Murakami – […]
Tuesday NLDS Open Thread
This is a tough time of the year for writing about a team not in the playoffs. MLB likes teams not to make much news while the playoffs are on. But we do have baseball tonight: 6:00 Eastern Dodgers @ Braves. They are tied at a game each. Lineups, Ohtani has dropped to fifth in […]
The 2026 Bluebird Banter Haiku Contest: Voting
Time to vote. I took all the haiku that had five or more recs. I had to put them into two polls because of an arbitrary limit that we have on Feed polls. 1: TCasserole Perfection and grace Gallant strides and vapour trails When Kirk steals second 2: Tom__M Walk, single, single Double play, strike […]
The season That Was: Ernie Clement
Ernie Clement was picked up as a free agent signing in March of 2023, after his release by the A’s earlier that month. I wasn’t thrilled with taking a castoff of the A’s (one who only played 6 games for one of the worst teams in baseball). It wasn’t like we didn’t already have a […]
Monday ALDS Open Threads
We have just two games today. White Sox @ Guardians 5:00 Eastern: White Sox are up 1-0. Lineups: Today’s Lineups WHITE SOX GUARDIANS Sam Antonacci – LF Steven Kwan – CF Kyle Teel – C Jose Ramirez – 3B Miguel Vargas – 3B Chase DeLauter – RF Munetaka Murakami – 1B Jo Adell – DH […]
Blue Jays Prospects Who Added Strength in 2026
On Friday, Baseball America published a spotlight of 25 prospects who’ve added significantly to their exit velocities in 2026. At the bottom of the post is a list of all 162 prospects in baseball who added at least 2mph to their 90th percentile exit velocity between last season and this one. The 90th percentile is […]
Open Thread for Sunday’s Division Series Games
We had some fun games yesterday. The vile Yankees were shut out by the slightly less (?) vile Rays. The vile Dodgers staved off a comeback attempt by vile Atlanta. And not especially vile Milwaukee and Chicago won fairly close games against also not especially vile San Diego and Cleveland. In the Rays game, we […]
Today in Blue Jays History: Encarnacion’s Walk-Off Homer
Remembering the Blue Jays’ Wild Card Walk-Off ten years ago today. In the 11th inning of the Blue Jays’ Wild Card matchup, Edwin Encarnacion delivered a dramatic one-out home run, sealing a thrilling 5-2 walk-off victory over the Orioles. In the 11th inning, with the Orioles best reliever sitting in the bullpen (Buck Showalter was […]
Happy Birthday Dave Winfield
Today marks Dave Winfield’s 75th birthday. Winfield enjoyed a remarkable 22-year Major League Baseball career, earning a spot in the Hall of Fame and playing a memorable season with the Blue Jays. In 1992, at age 40, Dave joined the Blue Jays as a free agent. The team was strong but lacked a designated hitter, […]
Open Thread For Saturday’s Division Series Games
I’m putting this together the night before, because I’m out tomorrow morning. We have four games today. Game One: 1:00 Eastern: White Sox @ Guardians: Smith vs. Messick. Game Two: 4:00 Eastern: Braves @ Dodgers. Game Three: 6:30 Eastern: Yankees @ Rays. Cole vs. Rasmussen. Game Four: 8:50 Eastern: Padres @ Brewers. Ray vs. Misiorowski. […]
Prediction Time: Division Series
In our Wild Card prediction thread, two people got three of the four series correct: Ritzkiss and Rancy. In the ‘how many games will the series go, Rancy was off by just two games, so he’s the winner. I’d like to say there is a prize, but you have my congratulations Rancy. That and $2.95 […]
Friday Open Thread
This is a slow time of year for baseball news, if your team isn’t in the playoffs. MLB doesn’t like teams to make news during the playoffs, because they want the focus to be on the playoff teams, which is fair. Jameson Taillon is going to have elbow surgery next week. He’s had Tommy John […]
Open Thread Thursday Wild Card Game
Only one Wild Card series made it to three games. Phillies and Braves play at 8:00 Eastern. Aaron Nola (7-12, 4.67) vs. Ray Kerr (0-0, 1.47 in 9 games, 1 start 18.1 innings). Today’s Lineups PHILLIES BRAVES Trea Turner – SS Drake Baldwin – C Kyle Schwarber – DH Ronald Acuna – RF Bryce Harper […]
The Season That Was: Kazuma Okamoto
The Jays signed Kazuma Okamoto to a four-year, $60 million contract. He had played 11 seasons in the Nippon Professional Baseball League. He hit .322/.411/.581 with 15 home runs in 77 game there in 2025 and .280/.362/.505 with 27 home runs in 143 games in 2024. He had 248 career home runs. There were questions […]
Open Thread For Wednesday’s Wild Card Games
We have four game again. Same order as yesterday. The games were good yesterday. 2:00 Eastern: Phillies @ Braves. Braves won game one. Today it is Cristopher Sánchez (18-7, 2.91) vs. Tyler Mahle (7-10, 3.99) The lineups are posted already: Today’s Lineups PHILLIES BRAVES Trea Turner – SS Ronald Acuna – RF Kyle Schwarber – […]
Today in Blue Jays History: Jays Clinch Playoff Twice
Thirty-Seven Years Ago The Blue Jays clinched first place in the AL East by defeating the Orioles 4-3. A dramatic three-run rally in the eighth inning erased a 3-1 deficit and sealed the win. Here was the starting lineup: Lloyd Moseby CF Mookie Wilson LF Fred McGriff 1B George Bell DH Ernie Whitt C Kelly […]
Open Thread For Tuesday’s Wild Card Games
We have four games today: Phillies @ Braves 2:00 Eastern We have lineups for this one: Today’s Lineups PHILLIES BRAVES Trea Turner – SS Drake Baldwin – C Kyle Schwarber – DH Ronald Acuna – RF Bryce Harper – RF Matt Olson – 1B Alec Bohm – 1B Mauricio Dubon – LF Derek Hill – […]
The Season That Was: Dylan Cease
Each year, I look at how each Jays player performed during the season. We signed Dylan Cease on December 2nd last year. He got a seven-year, $210 million contract. I read a few baseball commentators call it the worst free-agent signing of the off-season. Right now, they appear very wrong. We disagreed. 42.9% of us […]
Prediction Time: Wild Card
It is time for our predictions for the Wild Card Series. Yes, we will have Game Threads. One thread a day, unless they run too long. The games are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (if needed). Pick your winner in each of the three series and the number of games. And guess the total number of […]
The 2026 Bluebird Banter Haiku Contest
At the end of each season, we do a Haiku contest. Well, at the end of each season that I remember about it. I’m not always (ever?) the best at follow through. The rules are: come up with a Haiku that says something about the 2026 Blue Jays. I guess that isn’t exactly rules, plural. […]
Happy Birthday Jon Rauch
Today marks Jon Rauch’s 48th birthday. Rauch served as our closer in the 2011 season, but it was a challenging year for him. He posted a 4.85 ERA with 11 saves (and 5 blown saves) over 53 games, surrendering 11 home runs in 52 innings. He issued 14 walks and struck out 36 batters in […]
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