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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 […]

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Projecting the 2017 Blue Jays STUFF

Stuff is a known contributor to success in MLB pitchers that also can be used to look at injury trends in pitchers. In 2016, we tracked the Stuff of the Blue Jays pitching staff – the Starters, and the Bullpen. We learned that Aaron Sanchez is a monster amongst men, and that Marco Estrada was […]

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Rowdy Tellez Is Making His Way to Toronto One Page of Notes at a Time

DUNEDIN – From the moment he was drafted, Rowdy Tellez gained minor celebrity status among fans in Canada because of his peculiar yet endearing name. That fame drifted off into the background over the past few seasons as Tellez has been developing in the low minors, occasionally resurfacing with a #LetsGetRowdy on Twitter during a particular stretch […]

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Big Data, Beer, and Influencing Rogers

Since his arrival, Mark Shapiro has been pushing the Jays forward on multiple fronts. His baseball decisions have been much debated, but we know there has been a heavy investment in building analytical capability in the baseball operations department. Arden Zwelling wrote a great piece about Toronto’s new, highly publicized high performance department, but the Jays are […]

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How Kevin Pillar Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plate Discipline

DUNEDIN – Compared to years past, the Blue Jays Spring Training camp this season has been relatively quiet. There have been no outlandish contract demands from star players, no soul-crushing injuries to fan favourites, and no prospects taking everybody by surprise. That’s probably a good thing. Spring Training narratives tend to be distractions for players, and […]