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Minor League Report: Draft Week Edition

The 2018 major league draft is upon us so let’s take an overly brief moment to look at what we have seen so far from the previous two draft classes selected under the current management team, shall we? In 2016 the Jays signed 28 of their selections, one of whom is serving in the Navy […]

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Blue Jays 2018 MLB Draft Preview

The 2018 MLB Draft kicks off tonight, with the Detroit Tigers presumably getting things started with Auburn right handed pitcher Casey Mize at 7:00 PM ET. Having lost no notable free agents last winter and evidently being excluded from consideration for MLB’s competitive balance picks, Toronto will make just one first round selection: 12th overall. […]

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Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 103: May Showers

Episode 103 Greg and Josh discuss the disappointing May for the Blue Jays which includes some nearly historic bad records. They also talk about the ugly defending — which led to utility player Russell Martin — and the pending reinforcements in the form of Diaz and Grichuk, a solid stretch for Kendrys Morales, Pillar turning […]

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Reflecting on the Blue Jays Twitter Experience

Yesterday, the National Post reported some of the findings from an academic study of the Toronto Blue Jays Twitter community conducted by PhD candidate Katie Sveinson. The elements of Sveinson’s study covered by the National Post were about how people are often driven apart through their discussion of the Blue Jays via Twitter. An idea […]

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Luke Maile’s Success is Worth Celebrating

We’ve finally done it. For millennia, a person’s outlook on life could be tested with a simple idiom, one you may be familiar with: a straightforward question of whether or not a glass of water was half full or half empty. In the year 2018, we have finally found another test that is equally if not even more […]