Written by Andrew Munn, Matt Gwin, and Cole Nefsky The Trade Watch Entering Monday’s series, the Blue Jays and Athletics find themselves in comparable but distinct situations. The Athletics sit 44-54, 6.5 games back of the second wild card spot, and a whopping 21 games back of the silly-good Astros in the AL West. Returning home […]
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3 Things to Watch for Against Cleveland
Written by Nick Dika, Cole Nefsky, and Joshua Howsam Kendrys Morales and Edwin Encarnacion are NOT really Having Similar Seasons With Toronto taking on Cleveland this weekend, the comparisons of two players inextricably tied to each other in many Blue Jays’ fans minds will face off for the second time this season: Kendrys Morales and […]
3 Things to Watch for Against the Red Sox
Written by Sean Addis, Dave Church, and Mike Passador Next Man Up in the Rotation Coming into the season the Blue Jays were counting on last years league best rotation to help them contend in the American League. But injuries, ineffective performances, and a lack of depth have resulted in the rotation being ranked 12th in […]
3 Things to Watch for Against the Tigers
Written by Dylan Svoboda, Joshua Howsam, and Rachael McDaniel Lumbering Tigers The Blue Jays won’t have to worry about the Detroit Tigers while the latter are on the bases this week. The Tigers have been the second-worst base running team at -8.2 base running runs according to Baseball Prospectus. They have also stolen just twenty-nine bases […]
Kendrys Morales’ Trouble with the Curve
Written by Charlie Clarke Kendrys Morales hasn’t exactly come as advertised. While he is still on pace for 30 home runs and has delivered some big hits in big moments, nobody can be thrilled with an overall line of .256/.305/.466. So what has happened to the slugging Cuban? Last December, BP Toronto’s Elie Waitzer wrote […]
3 Things to Watch for Against the Astros
Written by Matt Gwin, Elie Waitzer, and Richard Lee-Sam Big Power from Unlikely Places You’d be forgiven if you’d confused Houston with Australia. They’re both have dry, barren areas that surround them with a millions animals that could conceivably kill you. As well, what’s up is down and what’s down is up…at least in baseball terms. […]
3 Things to Watch for Against the Yankees
Written by Joshua Howsam, Andrew Munn, and Gideon Turk Running Wild With the acquisition of former Cubs catcher Miguel Montero – and the likely option of Luke Maile – the Blue Jays now possess one of the least successful throwing tandems in baseball. Incumbent Russell Martin has thrown out just six of 40 attempted basestealers […]
3 Things to Watch for Against the Red Sox
Written by Cole Nefsky, Gideon Turk, and Sean Addis The Red Sox Shocking Lack of Lineup Depth Coming off a season in which Mookie Betts put up a good run for the MVP, Andrew Benintendi was promoted mashing, and the Red Sox as a team led the majors in runs scored, you would think that […]
3 Things To Watch For Against The Orioles
Written by Rachael McDaniel, Nick Dika, and Elie Waitzer The Orioles Rotation Is Terrible, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Going into this season, everyone knew that the Orioles rotation was bad. It was just the truth, and we all knew that no matter how much they outperformed their Baseruns record in April via two-out home runs […]
3 Things to Watch for Against the Royals
Written by Joshua Howsam, Jenn Smith, and Richard Lee-Sam Soft Slinging Success You could probably be forgiven if you forgot that Jason Vargas was in the league. The soft-tossing lefty signed a four year, $32M contract with the Royals prior to the 2013 season, but missed most of 2015 and 2016 following UCL-replacement (or Tommy John) surgery. Even […]