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 […]
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Joe Biagini Should Start the Season as a Starting Pitcher
When the Blue Jays selected Joe Biagini in the Rule 5 Draft last offseason, he had made just two relief appearances in his entire career. Both came in 2012, when he was in low-A ball playing for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. Biagini was a starter, through and through. Yet the Blue Jays took Biagini with the […]
Being Optimistic about Jarrod Saltalamacchia
The Blue Jays have a fantastic starting catcher in Russell Martin. He’s everything you want in a catcher: a solid hitter, a good defender, and someone who can handle a pitching staff well. Even in the first stages of a potential decline, he’s the best the Jays have ever had at the position and one […]
The Shapes of Their Lives: Blue Jays Spring Training Stories to Follow
I don’t need to tell you that spring training is a lot more of a snooze-fest than how it is presented. Given the structure and pace of the games, the most competitive thing MLB players do after reporting to camp is golf. And unfortunately that includes the World Baseball Classic, too. So while spring training […]
Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 45: All Mike’d Up
We’re launching a Patreon account! If you like what we do, and are able to help us out, please click the button below to become an Artificial Turf Wars Patron. Every little bit goes a long way. Episode 45 Blue Jays pitcher Mike Bolsinger stops by to discuss reaction to his 2016 trade to the […]
WBC Preview: Team Canada Pitchers
After dealing with the hitters late last week, and taking a look at the disappointing lack of roster direction earlier in the week, it’s now time to turn our attention to the pitching staff. Unlike on the hitting I will not be providing PECOTA projections, because with the exception of big league relievers Henderson & […]
The 90th Percentile Blue Jays
Baseball Prospectus released their PECOTA projections for the 2017 season earlier this month, and in the aggregate, they weren’t so kind to the Toronto Blue Jays, projecting an 81-81 record for a team that has made it to the ALCS in two straight seasons. Mike Passador already broke down the individual projections in this same […]
Barrels of Fun: Blue Jays Hitters who Find the Sweet Spot
Statcast is the new shiny toy of on field analysis, owned by major league baseball. It’s responsible for the sudden jump in the terms ‘exit velocity’ and ‘route efficiency’ and has made work for the fancy graphics people at Fox and TBS, allowing them to track player movements a ball flight in ways that simply […]
Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 44: A Canadian Classic
Greg Hamilton, coach and director of national teams for Baseball Canada, stops by to discuss Canada’s World Baseball Classic team. He details the selection process for the roster, the need for a blend of youth and experience, and how the team reacted to the absence of so many top players. Greg and Josh also break […]
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 […]








