Here we are again, ready for another edition of One At-bat. Welcome. I must confess, I had an interesting ‘throwback’ sort of OAB suggested to me. I was about to write it up, and then Saturday, May 28th happened. The Red Sox came into the Rogers Centre the night before, and, but for the grace […]
Author: Greg Wisniewski
The Odd Way In Which The Blue Jays Won Late
One At-Bat is a thing I do around here. I usually take one critical plate appearance from the recent past, and I break it down pitch by pitch. I do that in order to offer insight into just how thin the line is between victory and defeat on any given night. Any given day, too, […]
Recap: Rays 4, Blue Jays 3; Jays Lose in Eerily Familiar Way
J.A. Happ and Chris Archer went toe to toe in the early innings, but the Blue Jays bullpen couldn’t keep the Rays from untying the game. Jose Bautista opened the scoring with a two-run home run off of an unusually wild Chris Archer in the third inning. A seventh inning home run by Kevin Pillar, […]
Coming Up Short: Ezequiel Carrera’s Hidden Problem
Ezequiel Carrera has had a journeyman’s career in baseball, even though he’s only 28 years old. ‘Zeke’ as many of his Blue Jay teammates call him, has played for five different organizations in five MLB stops. For many of those games he has been in the outfield with a lot on his mind. Carerra has […]
Aaron Sanchez is a Two Pitch Pitcher, And it Works
I must confess, I didn’t start this piece out with the idea of making declarations about Aaron Sanchez and his arsenal on the mound. I started, quite innocently, with a pitch chart from Brooks Baseball. For those of you who might not be familiar with the chart I am talking about, let me illustrate first, and […]
One At-Bat: Arnold Leon vs. Steven Souza
Hello! Welcome to the inaugural One At-Bat of the 2016 season. I like to imagine that this is a regular feature where I religiously hunt down the best confrontation between a Blue Jay and an opponent, and present it a pitch by pitch format. Sometimes looking for those head-to-head matchups makes me giddy. Other times […]
Is Edwin Encarnacion a Slow Starter at the Plate?
With Edwin Encarnacion having dealt with both an abscessed tooth and an oblique injury this spring, we haven’t seen him at all. Well, we’ve seen him, but mostly in interviews about how he, like most other players facing free agency, is unimpressed that the team has not yet handed him years and dollars on a contract […]
How the Blue Jays “Walked” to a Division Title
As the 2016 season is about to begin, let’s start by reminding ourselves that the Toronto Blue Jays of 2015 won with a particular group of players, and a particular brand of baseball. The method they chose, even when it didn’t get them the results they deserved, was, more or less, as follows: Score a […]