For analysis and scouting reports on the Blue Jays earlier picks, click here. With their fourth-round pick, the Toronto Blue Jays have selected centre fielder Joshua Palacois from Auburn 132nd overall in the 2016 MLB draft. Palacois was previously drafted by the Reds in the 31st round of the 2014 MLB Draft. 4 (132): @BlueJays select Auburn CF […]
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MLB Draft: Blue Jays Select OF J.B. Woodman With 57th Pick
For analysis and scouting reports on the Blue Jays earlier pick, click here. With their first second-round pick (57th overall) of the 2016 MLB draft, the Toronto Blue Jays selected J.B. Woodman, a 6’2” outfielder out of Mississippi. Jesse Barfield announces the #BlueJays pick and it's University of Mississippi OF J.B. Woodman at No. 57. — Gregor […]
Recap: Tigers 3, Blue Jays 2; A Wasted Effort
A night after the Jays were trounced 11-0 by the Tigers, Aaron Sanchez pitched an absolute gem of a game, locked in a pitchers’ duel with Tigers’ starter (and former Blue Jay) Matt Boyd through five innings. The first hit of the game was a Justin Upton opposite field double to lead off the third inning, […]
Recap: Blue Jays 5, Red Sox 4; ACEstrada Hurls Another Gem
Well this was a fun one. The Blue Jays and Red Sox met up for their rubber match under cloudy skies today after splitting the first two games of the series. The Jays got out of the gate early when Jose Bautista led off the game with a solo home run off the Green Monster. Marco […]
This Week in Blue Jays: A Tale of Twelve Games
It’s just twelve games. Just twelve games of one-sixty-two. Yet, this current stretch against division rivals had the potential to tell the tale of how the remainder of the Blue Jays’ season might pan out, or so went the narrative leading up to them. The most perplexing aspect of the Jays’ play this season has […]
Recap: Blue Jays 4, Yankees 1; Faltering Yankees Bullpen Gives Toronto Another Win
The Blue Jays entered tonight’s game with an opportunity to win their fourth straight series and guarantee at least a .500 record during their twelve-game stint against the Yankees and Red Sox. Starter J.A. Happ looked shaky through the first few innings, missing his spots and giving up a double in each of the first […]
This Week in Blue Jays: “It’s Early” Works Both Ways
Regardless of whether or not you subscribe to the “it’s early” mantra that so many hopeful fans evoke when their team begins a season below expectations, there is likely little dissent amongst Blue Jays fans that the first fifty games have, as a whole, been both disappointing and frustrating. With memories of bat flips all […]
This Week in Blue Jays: On The Outside Looking In
There exists no other sport that relies more heavily on analytics than baseball to break down on-field performance into measurable, mathematically-relevant facts to help better understand performance. Yet, no other sport lends itself more to the creation and propagation of narrative – an account of events that lends itself to storytelling, either real or imaginary, […]
This Week in Blue Jays: Why It’s Ok to Worry
“I work hard not to draw any conclusions until 40 games in. Everything is amplified, magnified early in the season, just because of the number of games you’ve played. The most fortunate thing that’s happened is that the division is pretty wide open. We are not where we want to be, let me make that […]
Recap: Giants 5, Blue Jays 4; Care for Some Shrimp Tepera?
The Toronto Blue Jays, who entered today one game above .500 and 3.5 games out of first place in the AL East, sent Marcus Stroman to the mound looking for their first series sweep of the season. Standing in their way, however, was San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner. Neither starter was sharp, and the Jays had […]