Roster moves R Us.
They couldn’t have announce this before I hit publish on the last post? Trey Yesavage will make Tuesday’s start for the Jays, against the Red Sox. That doesn’t quite lineup with Max Scherzer’s next start, which would be Wednesday if the rotation stayed the same. Whoops, now I see that Eric Lauer is being moved […]
I guess the headline says it, Nathan Lukes hits the IL with a left hamstring strain. Yohendrick Piñango gets the call up. Yimi Garcia was moved to the 60-day IL to make room for Yohendrick. Piñango is hitting .288/.370/.488 with 3 home runs in 22 games. He is a left-handed batter and also throws left-handed. […]
Guardians 8 Blue Jays 6 I really hated them signing Max Scherzer again this season (even if it was cute that his daughter wrote to the Jays to plea for them to sign him). I didn’t think Scherzer had much left last year, I couldn’t imagine he’d be any better this year. So far, I’m […]
There were some bits of Jays news while I was out: Tonight’s lineups: Today’s Lineups GUARDIANS BLUE JAYS Daniel Schneemann – 2B Nathan Lukes – RF Chase DeLauter – RF Ernie Clement – 2B Jose Ramirez – 3B Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Kyle Manzardo – 1B Jesus Sanchez – LF Rhys Hoskins – DH Lenyn […]
I’m fighting a losing battle with jet lag. When I was younger it never bothered me but now, I’m a zombie for days. I played tennis yesterday afternoon, badly, in a fog. I don’t get jet lag going to places (or at least not near as bad), I think the fun of being somewhere new […]
We have made it back from Japan. It was a wonderful holiday. Thanks to Tom M for doing a great job of running things while I was gone. The last few days we saw a fair bit of sports. We went to a: Wearing Blue Jays caps got me into a lot of conversations. Everywhere […]
Blue Jays 3 at Angels 7 You didn’t really think they were going to get a sweep, right? The Jays were in tough against Jose Soriano, off to the kind of start that only a handful of pitchers have in the last century. And it was easy to see why he’s yet to allow more […]
Game three of three with the Angels. When I went to watch games in Anaheim, I really enjoyed the stadium. It was the first ballpark I’d been to that basically had a shopping mall in it. I remember looking in the Oakley store at over priced sunglasses and one of the sales person said I […]
Patrick Corbin turned in a second pretty good start in a row today, giving the offence time to overcome a slow start. Jeff Hoffman continues to be disturbingly combustible, but the rest of the bullpen did good work. Louis Varland picked up his first MLB save, and you have to wonder whether he’ll start to […]
Game two of three in Anaheim. And it is another late one for you guys out east (tho I guess I’m further east than any of you). Though, if everything goes to plan, I should be flying home today. I say if all goes to plan, because we’ve had a couple times when our flight […]
I try to highlight a mix of deeper sleepers and better known prospects in this column. To kick off the 2026 run, though, it was last year’s top pick who made an immediate case to be profiled. Jojo Parker was the eighth overall selection, and widely regarded as the most well rounded high school hitter […]
A good all around win. Dylan Cease was effectively wild, as they say, the bullpen was terrific, and while the offence wasn’t explosive the did enough in key moments (very much out of character). Toronto loaded the bases with two outs in the first, on singles by Vladimir Guerrero jr. and Eloy Jimenez and a […]
The first of three games at Angel Stadium. I figured it would be Angels Stadium. I was there a number of years ago and really enjoyed the park (which means we must have won). One of the games we sat in an area where they had waiters to bring us food and drink so we […]
Offence! By the Toronto Blue Jays! So the legends were true… After a terrible four game stretch, this win was cathartic. This one got late early. Nathan Lukes lead the game off with a single, Ernie Clement doubled to put runners on second and third, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. lined a single to bring them […]
Game three of three with the Diamondbacks. I’m putting the GameThreads together before leaving on holiday, which seemed like a better idea before I started doing it. Normally, a GameThread is pretty quick and easy, but when you are doing 20-some in a row, it loses some of the fun. Thankfully, I’m near the end. […]
This one will go on Jeff Hoffman, but realistically you also can’t score seven runs in four games and expect anything good to happen. The team is a mess on all fronts right now, from pitching to hitting to defence and base running. One in the loss column is all that’s keeping them above Kansas […]
Game two of three with the Diamondbacks. I was looking at ‘attractions in Phoenix’. Camelback Mountain, which does look nice for hike (for other people, not for me, I’ve hiked enough to know I don’t enjoy it, and adding climbing doesn’t enhance the appeal). It is one of the “New 7 Wonders of Nature”. There […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: the Jays lost and suffered an injury. Daulton Varsho left the game in the third with what’s being described as knee discomfort. It’s not clear what happened, he hadn’t had any particularly awkward plays in the field and he struck out looking in his one at bat. Vladimir […]
The Jays are in beautiful, downtown Phoenix, Arizona (well, I don’t know if it is beautiful or not), for three games against the Diamondbacks. Yet another park with a retractable roof. I remember how strange it was when the Jays had the retractable roof, all those years ago. They had real grass in Phoenix until […]
Happy Friday. It’s been a long week in Blue Jays land, and a long week here in Calgary for that matter. It snowed sideways yesterday, about eight inches. Other Tom is enjoying 21 degrees and cherry blossoms in Tokyo, not that I’m bitter. Anyways, in Jays news, Jose Berrios pitched in Dunedin yesterday. The surface […]
Blue Jays 1 at Brewers 2 For the second straight day, the Jays took an early lead on the Brewers, failed to build on it, and then were undone by some small ball as they fell 2-1 to the Brewers and dropped yet another series 2-1. It’s particularly unfortunate since Patrick Corbin was in the […]
Game three of three with the Brewers. This will take them through their sixth series of the season. So will be starting to see what the Jays are by now. Of course, I’m writing this before the season starts. Let’s see….I’ve said everything I need to about Milwaukee in the first two GameThreads. And, as […]
It was a dark and stormy night in Milwaukee, with big lightning displays outside the stadium and rain leaking through cracks in the American Family Field roof. Inside the stadium, it was a pretty juiceless affair. Neither offence could get much of anything going. Ultimately, it was the Brewers who cobbled together a little bit […]
Game two of three in Milwaukee. I have such a dislike of Bud Selig that I don’t I could go to Milwaukee to watch a game. I know he doesn’t own the team anymore (and that he’s over 90 years old), but he worked very hard to kill off my Expos and was just an […]
This morning, uber-prospect Kevin McGonigle and the Detroit tigers finalized an eight year, $150m contract extension. The deal covers the 27-34 seasons, effectively buying out the first three years of McGonigle’s free agency, and includes escalators that could increase its value to $160m. Even assuming McGonigle breaks arbitration records (firmly on the table, given that […]