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MLB Draft: Blue Jays Select CF Joshua Palacois With the 132nd Overall Pick

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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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, […]