The Blue Jays have added a former general manager to their front office. Shi Davidi reports that the club has hired Ben Cherington, most recently of the Red Sox. #BlueJays on verge of hiring former #RedSox GM Ben Cherington as VP of baseball ops, per sources: https://t.co/2h5nkHq64a — Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) September 14, 2016 Some […]
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Solving Marcus Stroman’s Woes with Runners On
Marcus Stroman has pitched parts of three seasons in his major league career, and one of the more interesting peculiarities to develop is his worse-than-expected run prevention ability. The fielding-independent metrics love him: over those three seasons, his 3.36 FIP ranks 25th among 127 starting pitchers to throw at least 300 innings, while his xFIP […]
Ezequiel Carrera: King of the Wall-Scrapers?
Ezequiel Carrera is currently in his sixth Major League season. He has 931 career plate appearances; 834 at bats. He has 10 home runs. Five of those have come this year; none bigger than Monday night’s solo shot to the leftmost point of left field. It hung in the air, dragged those extra inches over […]
Recap: Rays 6, Blue Jays 2; At Least the Defense Was Good?
The Blue Jays continued to struggle in the month of September, dropping the second game of a three game series against the Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 6-2. Tonight the issue was once again the lack of production from the offense, as they managed just nine hits and two walks in their faint attempt […]
How to Lose First Place in the AL East in 12 Days
Have you watched the Blue Jays play baseball recently? If so, you’ve probably had this uncontrollable desire to pick up whatever electronic device you were watching them on and throw it against something hard. On September 1st, the Blue Jays held a two game lead over the second place Boston Red Sox. Today it’s September […]
Recap: Blue Jays 3, Rays 2; Ezequiel, My Hero
Well wasn’t that a change from the hit-happy, time-heavy Red Sox series of this past weekend. Through five innings, only Logan Forsythe, the first batter of the game for the Rays, had mustered together an at bat that ended in a hit. Then in the sixth inning, the Blue Jays took a two run lead. First, […]
Don’t Panic: What 1993 Can Teach Us About the 2016 Blue Jays
It’s a tense time to be a Blue Jay fan. As September marches on, a team that once felt bulletproof is starting to show some serious cracks in their armor. As the Blue Jays slip further behind the Red Sox for the division lead, it can be hard not to worry, no matter how talented the […]
The Blue Jays STUFF Report – Volume 11, with a Twist!
Today, I hate baseball. My fantasy team lost in the semi-finals. My slow pitch team went 1-3 on the weekend. The Jays… well, the Jays did not add to my love of the game. I’ll go back to loving it today, though… I think. As bad as things are, that does not mean there is […]
Not Those Guys Again: Rays Series Preview
Toronto Blue Jays vs. Tampa Bay Rays September 12 – 14 Written by Elie Waitzer and Greg Wisniewski The Tampa Bay rays have 82 losses already, guaranteeing them a losing season, and it’s only the 12th of September. This looks especially bad, since the rest of the division has no more than 66 losses apiece. Truly, the Rays are the […]
Recap: Red Sox 11, Blue Jays 8; Big Papi Ends His Toronto Career With a Bang
This game was wild from the very first inning. Mookie Betts hit a double over Kevin Pillar’s head in centre, a play Pillar usually makes, which cashed in the games first run. However, it was far from the last one in a high scoring affair. Edwin Encarnacion answered in the bottom of the first inning […]








