After the exhilaration of the past two postseason appearances, the Blue Jays’ 2017 campaign can only be described as a colossal disappointment. While it’s inevitable that a playoff team will eventually fall short of October baseball at some point, the Jays were built and marketed as a team in contention. In fact, most baseball pundits […]
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The Ghosts of Blue Jays Octobers Past
The 2017 postseason has been going for a week now, and I’ve got to be honest with you all: it’s been a doozy. A real barn-burner. A raucous, rousing good time. Baseball’s best starters have been lit the hell up; there have been pitchers’ duels and crazy comebacks and unforgivable managerial blunders. It’s been pretty […]
The Wire Quote that Best Suited Blue Jays Coaches/Front Office Personnel in 2017
The Blue Jays season began and ended with both bitter disappointment, as a 1-9 start turned into a 76-86 finish and the team was all but eliminated from the postseason well before September. It was wire to wire futility. That sentence wasn’t a coincidence, of course, as this very closely resembles the overarching message of […]
The Wire Quote that Best Suited The Top Blue Jays Prospects in 2017
The Blue Jays season began and ended with both bitter disappointment, as a 1-9 start turned into a 76-86 finish and the team was all but eliminated from the postseason well before September. It was wire to wire futility. That sentence wasn’t a coincidence, of course, as this very closely resembles the overarching message of […]
The Wire Quote that Best Suited Each Blue Jays Hitter in 2017
The Blue Jays season began and ended with both bitter disappointment, as a 1-9 start turned into a 76-86 finish and the team was all but eliminated from the postseason well before September. It was wire to wire futility. That sentence wasn’t a coincidence, of course, as this very closely resembles the overarching message of […]
The Wire Quote that Best Suited Each Blue Jays Pitcher in 2017
The Blue Jays season began and ended with both bitter disappointment, as a 1-9 start turned into a 76-86 finish and the team was all but eliminated from the postseason well before September. It was wire to wire futility. That sentence wasn’t a coincidence, of course, as this very closely resembles the overarching message of […]
Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 77: And Now our Watch is Ended
Episode 77 Greg and Josh go over the final week of the season and the decisions and press conferences from the immediate aftermath. They discuss Jose Bautista’s final games and the declining of his option, Josh Donaldson’s desire to remain in Toronto, the early outlook for the upcoming offseason based on comments from Ross Atkins, […]
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 […]
Why the Blue Jays Need to Be Careful About Extending Josh Donaldson
Now that it’s over, we’re all looking ahead to 2018 and beyond, and it’s a time we obsessive types focus undivided attention on considering what the process looks like for Toronto’s player personnel acquisition team. What are the questions Ross Atkins and his staff have to wrangle with as the attempt to follow through on the […]
3 Things to Watch for Against the Yankees
Written by Mike Passador, Gideon Turk, and Elie Waitzer Something to Play for? While the lack of furious playoff races means that few teams have consequential games on tap this weekend, there’s still a little bit of intrigue on both sides of this matchup. The Yankees enter this series three games back of the division-leading […]