The full-year minor league season is about five months long and made up of ~140 games. One of the dangers of passionate prospect watching is that one becomes easy prey to sample-size errors. You need a decent sample of games to even bother to make an observation. As of now we’re 1/5 of the way into the […]
Author: Tammy Rainey
Farm Notes: Who Are These Guys?
The Blue Jays always wait as long as possible to release the rosters for their full-season minor league teams. True to form, this season they again left me jonesing for the news all weekend (which probably says unpleasant things about my priorities in life) before finally revealing the placement of their prospects and organization filler […]
The Consensus Top Prospects and Where to Find Them
Various sites and publications, some carrying more weight than others, publish top prospect lists throughout the offseason each year. They are each informative in their own way, as they can include players others didn’t mention or provide you with some tidbit of scouting information you may not have seen otherwise. For a prospect fangirl like myself […]
Who’s Who in Blue Jays Spring Training Camp: A Guide
With the spring schedule getting set to kick off, it can be helpful to have a reference to who some of the guys we’ll be seeing over the coming weeks are, and what their chances to contribute to the major-league roster look like. My primary focus here will be to discuss the minor leaguers, especially the non-roster invites. […]
Blue Jays Sign Canadian Reliever John Axford
Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic broke news tonight that soon-to-be 35 year old right-handed reliever John Axford has been signed by the Toronto Blue Jays. Sources: #BlueJays in agreement with free-agent reliever John Axford. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) February 9, 2018 The Simcoe, Ontario native played for the Oakland A’s the last two seasons and while […]
How the Blue Jays Can Fit a Josh Donaldson Extension into Their Payroll
As the new year arrives and Toronto fans, along with the great majority of other MLB fans, await the advent of their team making a significant move, I am conscious of the fact that many Jays fans are perhaps too pessimistic about what financial capabilities are available to Ross Atkins as he makes these impending […]
Seven Potential Blue Jays Trade Partners for Outfielders
I confess that for me, the art and science of roster building is as much fun as the actual game on the field. Perhaps that’s because I’m hundreds of miles away from my favorite team (and, indeed, a six hour drive from the nearest MLB team) and so much of my baseball experience is “virtual.” […]
Ross Atkins’ Hands are Tied by Shohei Ohtani
Thanks to a last minute agreement between the NPB and the MLBPA, reports are now out there that Shohei Ohtani will finally be posted on Dec 2. This will come as a considerable relief to all the teams who consider themselves candidates to sign him, not least among them the Toronto Blue Jays. In fact, […]
The Optimist’s Guide to the 2018 Blue Jays
Let’s face it, the commentary on the near-future of the Toronto Blue Jays among the media types is depressingly bleak. I mean, few come right out and say that winter is coming, but they expend quite a few words explaining too us how the Jays are not really a very good team and have a […]
Why a Donaldson Extension May Not Be As Expensive as You’d Think
Following up on my last post looking at how the aging curve impacts production, and the history of high-dollar long-term contracts signed by hitters in their 30’s, I’m asking (and hopefully somewhat answering) the question of what that information, in the context of other factors, means to Josh Donaldson and the Toronto Blue Jays as […]