On Thursday, the Blue Jays completed their second deal this week, sending J.A. Happ to the Yankees in exchange for utility player Brandon Drury and OF prospect Billy McKinney. Source: Yankees sending Brandon Drury and Billy McKinney to Jays in the trade for J.A. Happ. Congressman @JonHeyman was first to report them as potential return. […]
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TRADE: Blue Jays Trade RP Seunghwan Oh to Rockies for Prospects
The Blue Jays made a trade during the ninth inning of Tuesday’s game against the Twins, sending reliever Seunghwan Oh to the Rockies for first base prospect Chad Spanberger, Outfielder Forrest Wall, and a Player to be Named Later. Not included, despite earlier reports is first base prospect Sean Bouchard. Oh deal to rox is […]
Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 110: Phase 2 – Begin!
Episode 110 Greg, Josh, and Nick look at the state of the Blue Jays as the second half begins play. They discuss Marcus Stroman’s rant, Kevin Pillar’s injury and the impact on the roster going forward, Marco Estrada’s potential return to the trade market, Justin Smoak putting together another very solid season, J.A. Happ’s All-Star […]
The Danger in Hunting for Market Inefficiencies
This past spring, I wrote a piece for this site hypothesizing that the Blue Jays had decided on a new way of targeting pitchers, something I termed as a potential market inefficiency: choosing to go after pitchers with outlier movement on their fastballs. At the midway point of the 2018 season, it’s clear things haven’t […]
Minor League Report: Organization All-Star Edition
The upper level All-Star games were last week. The A-ball All-Star games were weeks ago. Even though such breaks are considered the ceremonial divide between first and second “halves” of the season, just like in the majors, the event doesn’t actually fall at the halfway mark of the season. Three of four full season teams […]
Buck and Pat’s “Big and Strong” All-Stars
I don’t think I need to remind anyone that it hasn’t been a banner season for the Toronto Blue Jays. With J.A. Happ the sole Blue Jays All-Star representative, Jays fans and followers may not be very interested in the festivities this year. So let’s create our own. As many have pointed out, Buck Martinez […]
A Farewell to J.A. Happ
This Blue Jays season has been, in many ways, reminiscent of the last. Mostly in that there’s been a lot of bad baseball played. While the Jays started out in the absolute worst way possible last April before crawling back to the low-end mediocrity in which they would reside for the entirety of the season, […]
Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 109: The Right STUFF
Episode 109 Mike Sonne of The Athletic stops by to discuss the Blue Jays pitchers. He breaks down the Stuff reports for trade candidates, J.A. Happ, John Axford, Seung-hwan Oh, and Tyler Clippard as well as starters Aaron Sanchez and Marcus Stroman, before also discussing how John Gibbon’s bullpen usage has affected the Fatigue Unit […]
The Unsung Heroes of Minor League Baseball
As we have extensively covered, MiLB teams insulate themselves against the variable quality of the product on the field with fun, affordability, customer service, and unique promotions and giveaways. And if your team wins, hey, that’s an added bonus. Given this focus on fan experience over on-field success, there are many subtle roles in a minor league […]
The Real Blue Jays All Stars
On Sunday, Major League Baseball announced the rosters for the 89th Annual Midsummer Classic in Washington, DC. Players from around the league were chosen and recognized based on their performance on the field and star power. Toronto will be sending one representative on Tuesday July 17th, left-handed pitcher J.A. Happ. As the first half comes to […]