Sports are in a sense a collection of narratives. Some more pedestrian and typical, some more unusual and compelling. The are often narratives attached to the results on the field—Bautista’s bat flip homer being an obvious example—but as often they are born in the synergy between the players life off the field and their sports […]
Author: Tammy Rainey
Blue Jays Minor League Update: June 18th Edition
The big news on the Blue Jays farm continues to be Bo Bichette, but I’ll get to him in just a moment. Beyond Bo, the story of the last week has been the MLB Rule 4 Draft, of course, along with the debut of the 2017 Vancouver Canadians. I’m sure you’ve seen tons of draft […]
Blue Jays Minor League Update: One Third In Edition
The full season farm teams just passed the 1/3 mark on their season and the sample sizes are now big enough for both team evaluators and internet observers to take seriously. Traditionally organizations wait until June arrives before beginning earned promotions (as opposed to those which happen out of necessity such as Anthony Alford and […]
The Aggregate Top 15 Blue Jays Prospects
Thursday night the Dunedin Blue Jays opened the MiLB season for the Toronto farm system (the other three full season teams saw their games postponed by weather) and the final adjustments have been made to each team’s opening roster, and coincidentally, the last of the major Top Prospect lists dropped this week as well. So […]
Chris Coglan Arrives During Blue Jays Eleventh Hour Shuffle
Your Toronto Blue Jays made two moves of significance today, with at least one more to go before Sunday’s 12 p.m. roster deadline. The first and most intriguing move came when the team announced they had signed OF/IF Chris Coghlan to a minor league contract. Blue Jays have agreed to terms with Chris Coghlan on […]
The Top Prospects to Watch For at Each Blue Jays MiLB Affiliate
Writer’s Note: It is still early for us to know (officially) exactly where each player will be assigned, but for most of the higher profile guys, one can make a pretty good educated guess. I’ll likely be wrong on one or two of these guys, but it should be pretty accurate overall. Also, this preview […]
Gibby the Best: Blue Jays to Extend John Gibbons
Update: Source says #BlueJays and John Gibbons reach agreement on extension that adds two guaranteed years plus 2020 option. Steve Phillips first — Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) March 21, 2017 It appears as though the deal may be done, keeping ol’ Gibbers around through at least 2019, with a club option for 2020. With his current […]
Breaking Down the Blue Jays Strong Pitching Depth
The oft expressed concern about almost any pitching staff, no matter how seemingly talented, is depth. It is a truism in baseball that you can never have too much pitching. In particular Blue Jays fans have been muttering all winter about the lack of starting pitching depth behind their admirable rotation, but also many were […]
A Brief History of Blue Jays Catchers of the Future
A.J. Jimenez was unceremoniously released this week. The reaction among some Blue Jays fans on Twitter, noticeably our own Gideon Turk, was mostly “so goes another Toronto Catcher of the Future” (henceforth abbreviated as TCF) and while it might be a stretch to even say that Jiminez was ever the TCF at all, it does […]
The Blue Jays 25-Year, 25-Man Roster Challenge
Well we’ve reached the point in the off-season where, despite their being 90 players still out there as free agents, things are so slow that even news about the Blue Jays signing RHP Lucas Harrell to a minor league contract was the ‘big story’. So when you have an opportunity to write something all basebally […]